Before his incarceration however, Tijerina did help plan the Poor People’s March on Washington, alongside Martin Luther King Jr., who was leading the entire project before his assassination, and other black civil rights leaders including Coretta Scott King and Ralph Albernathy. Tijerina led the Hispanic contingency from New Mexico, and along with Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, another Chicano movement organizer who led Hispanics from Colorado, and Alicia Escalante with Hispanics from L.A. They met up with Puerto Ricans from New York City, and with the blacks being led by King and Albernathy to march together, and to protest together, and to, at least briefly, unite the African-American Civil Rights movement and the Chicano Civil Rights movement. They marched on Washington in the Poor People’s march to protest the inequalities suffered by all people.
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