Black PrideKennedy’s Assassination

The March on Washington; The full and untold story behind it all

Historical Insight1960Greensboro , North

Carolina Four black students

from N.C Agricultural and Technical College

began a sit-in at a segregated lunch

counter, Woolworth’s. They stayed seated even though they

were refused service. This triggered many

nonviolent events. Six months later, the original protesters were served at the lunch counter. This

was also effective in integrating other locations in the

South.

1961During the spring &

summer, CORE and SNCC sponsored a program to test out

the new laws. Many students, black and

white, volunteered to start taking bus trips through the south. Several groups of “Freedom Riders” were attacked by

angry mobs along the way

Starting the FlamesThe idea for a march on

Washington started back in 1941. Philip Randolph, one of the key players in the march, threatened to march forcing

a bill to be signed. The president at the time signed

the order banning discrimination in the armed forces before the marchers

came. The ‘march’ succeeded without a full

protest. The march that was to come nearly twenty years later was more than a protest

but a revolution.

The March Begins

On the day of the march, people from all over came to Washington in many different ways to participate. Nearly 300,000 people of black and white descent were present to hear the

infamous “I Have a Dream” speech by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and

see Mahalia Jackson be the first African American singer to perform

on the steps of the Lincoln Monument.

Even with Mahalia’s beautiful singing, women didn’t work and support at

the fore-front of the march. Powerful female speakers weren’t chosen to

perform as key note speakers for the march’s program. This was to be a

“man’s battle”.

The march was extremely successful in many ways. A civil rights was

passed and a sense of black nationalism was felt by many African

Americans. In the later years, the Nation of Islam was formed with

Malcolm X as the head leader and the Black Panther party was formed.

The Six Brave & Intelligent Men Behind the March

(not in the order they’re standing in)

A. Philip Randolph

Whitney YoungRoy WilkinsJames FarmerJohn LewisMartin Luther

King Jr.

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