50,000 people participated in " The Poor Peoples March " organised by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to address issues of economic justice. The campaign culminated on Washington, D.C. to demand economic aid be given to the poorest communities in the United States. Unlike many of Martin Luther King Jr's campaigns The Poor People's Campaign did not focus on just poor blacks but addressed all poor people of every minority.

The first official game played under New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club rules was in 1846 in Hoboken, New Jersey, between the Knickerbockers and the New York Base Ball Club.