chanting the giant step toward full participation in affairs. It was august 28, 1963. We are not afraid solemnly. P was taken the footsteps of the march in washington was firm. Aroused a larger awareness of sharedhts of negroes who not only the son and heir but the sun and air but their rights. Learnedt 28, america this emotionally with clarity more penetrating than intellect. Every generation of america participated. If not in the city of washington but across the land by television. Tom paine, patrick henry. Everyone attended the march on on august 28. This city that has a mess of traffic problems, traffic had been rerouted. [applause] who would like to sing a song. Momentum for the march began slowly. A mounting tide of children and withnts and parents banners held aloft were walking along. No attempt was made or thought given to strict lines of marching. The mood of the day was serious but relaxed. 200,000 strong they marched in the largest demonstration for civil rights in the his
The first march on washington was planned during the Second World War. It was called off at the last minute. So the organizers of the 1963 march had it in mind during that entire period they would need to revive this idea of the march and they talked about it pretty constantly for that period and then starting in 1962 they thought that for a number of reasons this was the time to actually put it on. It was a march that was very long in the planning and well thought out and finally carried forward. Why was that first march canceled . What was the focus of the first march . It is important to understanding the march that happened to know what that was about. This is a time when roosevelt called to be the arsenal of democracy and support it by building airplanes, tanks, weapons to support the allies in europe and asia. This is the Central Point to a whole array of injustice that africanamericans were facing from being shut out of the armed forces when they could be in the armed forces. Th
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