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