In the last few months of his life Martin Luther King Jr. confronted the fact that civil rights alone could not solve the problems of poverty and he roamed the South looking to ignite a poor people's movement with demands for full equality, full employment, guaranteed income, black-owned redistribution, and decent housing. Echoing the discourse of the Panthers, his final speeches recognize a promise broken by the government and the Northern civil sphere since the time immediately following the civil war. He was assassinated just a couple of months before the first major march of this emerging poor people's movement was planned on the mall in Washington, D.C.