On hearing of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Freedman quit her job and went to Washington, DC. She lived in Resurrection City, a shantytown put up by the Poor People's Campaign on Washington Mall in 1968, and photographed there. Photographs from the series were published at the time in "Life", and collected in Freedman's first book, "Old News: Resurrection City", in 1970. A. D. Coleman wrote of the book: