were three groups of people, the advocates of civil rights, the die hard opponent racists, and that in the middle, there were a mass of well-meaning white people who really didn t care. but if they could be shown that black people were determined, that their cause was just, that they could be won over to the cause of civil rights. negroes want the same things that white citizens possess. and no force under the sun can stand and block and stop this civil rights revolution, which is now under way. there had been demonstrations all through the south. this needed to come to a head. there needed to be a crescendo. and he was probably the only
news. in dallas, texas, three shots were fired at president kennedy s motorcade in downtown dallas. there was an unbelievable, sad moment. i felt like we had lost a friend. from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern time. i was in the ninth grade when president kennedy was assassinated. and we all knew that vice president lyndon johnson was a southerner. we were definitely afraid of that. we thought that he would get in, and then everything would be over. no memorial or eulogy could more eloquently honor president kennedy s memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long. he told some of his southern friends, we re going to do this. you just be quiet.
headed out. he s been told to leave the washington monument. at some point in the early afternoon when it was clear no riot was going to happen, they said, i guess you all can go home. we were all geared for something happening. we were all itchy about violence. it was the best thing that could have happened that nothing happened. myself personally, my task was to organize a cultural contingency to come to the march on washington. i give you mr. burt lancaster. [ applause ] paul newman, lina horn, sammy davis jr., marlon brando. all of them looked to harry as their spiritual, political, moral civil rights mentor, because they knew his close relationship with dr. king. one of the things i said in my conversations with the
the columns as i recall. lit be just for a moment and it dozed off. walter was a constant advocate of civil rights. human rights. there is a lot of noble talk about brotherhood, and then some americans drop the brother and keep the hood. he explained to us the important of the role. they paid for signs, paid for caps that staid uaw on it. in fact, union contributions toward the implementation and execution of the march were more than civil rights organizations themselves. 25% of the uaw membership was african-american. it is the responsibility of every american to share the impatience of the negro
kennedy s motorcade in downtown dallas. there was an unbelievable, sad moment. i felt like we had lost a friend. from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern time. i was in the ninth grade when president kennedy was assassinated. and we all knew that vice president lyndon johnson was a southerner. we were definitely afraid of that. we thought that he would get in, and then everything would be over. no memorial or eulogy could more eloquently honor president kennedy s memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long. he told some of his southern friends, we re going to do this. you just be quiet. you just step aside.