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JANS - Marian Wright Edelman, head of the Children Defense Fund, and community advocates, local and national, participated in a bus tour July 11-12, 2017 to commemorate Senator Robert E. Kennedy's 1967 Delta Poverty Tour. Fifty years ago, Kennedy responded to Edelman's challenge to U.S. senators to "come see for yourselves," the conditions of poverty in the Mississippi Delta. Kennedy was shocked by what he found. That Delta trip helped prompt actions to address some of the problems of hunger he saw.
"We witnessed and heard firsthand the progress made in the past 50 years," said Edelman. "I was also very interested in hearing about the challenges...