November 27, 1025
In what came to be known as the 1st Crusade, Pope Urban II called on all Christians to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims and reclaim the Holy Land: “Deus vult (God wills it)!” At the Council of Clermont in France, the pope promised absolution and remission of sins for all who died in the service of Christ.
November 27, 1967
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. announced the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Poor People’s Campaign, a movement to broadly address economic inequalities with nonviolent direct action.
