#1963 march on washington

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Watch Colman Domingo as March on Washington architect, civil rights activist & organizer Bayard Rustin in Rustin teaser trailer

Marking today’s 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Netflix has launched the teaser trailer for the upcoming Bayard Rustin biopic Rustin starring Emmy-winning Euphoria actor Colman Domingo in the title role. An often overlooked civil rights activist and organizer, Rustin was the architect of 1963’s March on Washington, working alongside Reverend Martin Luther King…

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👊🏾✊🏾 “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.” ~ Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) 🇺🇸

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Revolution Volume I: The 1960s Counter Culture & Rise of The New Left

Source:Amazon– RogerKimball’s book. Source:The Daily Press From Amazon “I’m into the study of revolutions, not the coopting of revolutionary rhetoric to sell capitalist merch. I’ve cut together clips of 1960s radicals discussing the politics of their time to give young people a sense of the intense revolutionary fervor of that era. Americans today have been presented with a flattened out, cliche…

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“Although this summer has seen remarkable progress in translating civil rights from principles into practices, we have a very long way yet to travel.”

JFK’s proposed statement on the March on Washington, August 18, 1963. 

Collection JFK-3: Papers of John F. Kennedy: Presidential Papers: President's Office Files

Series: Subject Files

File Unit: Civil rights: March on Washington, 28 August 1963

Transcription:

MARCH IN WASHINGTON

AUG 18, 1965

Proposed Statement

We have witnessed today in Washington and tens of thousands of Americans -- both Negro and white -- exercising their right to assemble peaceably and direct the widest possible attention to a great national issue. Efforts to secure equal treatment and equal opportunity for all without regard to race, color, creed or nationality are neither novel nor difficult to understand. What is different today is the intensified and widespread public awareness of the need to move forward in achieving these objectives -- objectives which are older than this nation.

Although this summer has seen remarkable progress in translating civil rights from principles into practices, we have a very long way yet to travel. One cannot help but be impressed with the deep fervor and the quiet dignity that characterizes the thousands who have gathered in the Nation's Capital from across the country to demonstrate their

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faith and confidence in our democratic form of government. History has seen many demonstrations - - of widely varying character and for a whole host of reasons. As our thoughts travel to other demonstrations that have occurred in different parts of the world, this Nation can properly be proud of the demonstration that has occurred here today. The leaders of the organizations sponsoring the March and all who have participated in it deserve our appreciation for the detailed preparations that made it possible and for the orderly manner in which it has been conducted.

The Executive Branch of the Federal Government will continue its efforts to obtain increased employment and to eliminate dicrimina-tion in employment practices, two of the prime goals of the March. In addition, our efforts to secure enactment of the legislative proposals made to the Congress will be maintained, including not only the Civil

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Rights Bill, but also proposals to broaden and strengthen the Manpower Development and Training Program, the Youth Employment Bill, amendments to the vocational education program, the establishment of a work-study program for high school age youth, strengthening of the adult basic education provisions in the Administrations education program and the amendments proposed to the public welfare work-relief and training programs. This nation can afford to achieve the goals of a full employment policy --it cannot afford to achieve the goals of a full employment  policy --it cannot afford to permit the potential skills and educational capacity of its citizens to be unrealized.

The cause of 20 million Negroes has been advanced by the program conducted so appropriately before the Nation's shrine to the Great Emancipator, but even more significant is the contribution to all mankind.

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Rosa Parks seated alongside Joan Baez and Bob Dylan during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 © Bob Parent.

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1963 March on Washington over the news crew’s shoulder.

NBC News’ Ray Scherer.

NBC News’ Martin Agronsky.

Originally posted August 23, 2013.

Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture  |  Tumblr Archive

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Burt Lancaster and Paul Newman at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963.

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Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28 1963. Photo by Francis Miller.

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Rare Color Photographs Offer Intimate Glimpse of 1963 March on Washington

— By Rachel Hartigan | Photographs BYJames P. Blair

Martin Luther King, Jr., raises his arm toward the end of his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. "Everybody there felt the power of the moment," says photographer James P. Blair.

The peaceful crowd of a quarter million people stretched from the Lincoln Memorial, from which the picture is taken, past the reflecting pool to the Washington Monument.

The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom gathered together people from civil rights organizations, labor unions, and religious groups across the country to protest segregation, inequality, and economic injustice. As the sign demanding an end to police brutality demonstrates, many of the issues that motivated the marchers remain unresolved.

The marchers supported a range of issues that still resonate today, including a higher minimum wage and voting rights. The organizers of the march determined what the signs would say.

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom lasted all day, until shadows from the Lincoln Memorial finally brought relief from the hot August sun.

Before James P. Blair photographed the March on Washington, he'd spent six weeks on assignment on the island of Tristan da Cunha in the southern Atlantic. Courtesy National Geographic Image Collection

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August 28th 1963: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom organized by A. Philip Randolph and…

dailyhistoryposts: On This Day In History August 28th, 1955: Emmett Till is lynched. A Black 14-year-old accused of whistling at (or flirting with, or putting his hand around the waist of) a White woman, he was abducted, tortured, and murdered by two men who were not punished. The description propelled Till, posthumously, into the forefront of the American Civil Rights Movement. The men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were never convicted and publically told their story, selling it for $4,000. The woman, Carolyn Bryant, has also not faced justice. On August 10th, 2022, a grand jury declined to indict her. Claims that Carolyn Bryant recanted her entire story are incomplete and misleading–she now says she cannot remember the exact details, and she apparently said some of her story was false during an untaped portion of an otherwise taped interview. August 28th, 1963: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, was held in Washington D.C. Keynote speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his historic “I Have a Dream” speech.

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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech on August 28, 1963.

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Harry Belafonte. Here he is with Sidney Poitier at the March on Washington in 1963.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series: Miscellaneous Subjects, Staff and Stringer Photographs

Image description: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at a podium in front of the fluted columns of the Lincoln Memorial. A National Park Service ranger is standing in the foreground.