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April 1, 2008 at 1:24pm

MEDIA SCOUT: Martin Luther King Jr's 'radical campaign'

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On cnn.com: In "King's Final Crusade: the Radical Push for a New America," John Blake says Martin Luther King's plan for his Poor People's Campaign "was so revolutionary, it alarmed many of his closest advisers."

"The campaign's goal," writes Blake, was to "force the federal government to withdraw funding for the Vietnam War and commit instead to abolishing poverty."

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