It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when
hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin
Luther King Jr. lifted the crowd when he told of his dream that all
Americans would join together to realize the founding ideal of
equality. The power of the speech created an enduring symbol of the
march and the larger civil rights movement. King s speech still
inspires us fifty years later, but its very power has also narrowed
our understanding of the march. In this insightful history, William
P. Jones restores the march to its full significance.
The opening speech of the day was delivered by the leader of the
march, the great trade unionist A. Philip Randolph, who first
called for a march on Washington in 1941 to press for equal
opportunity in employment and the armed forces. To the crowd that
stretched more than a mile before him, Randolph called for an end
to segregation and a living wage for every American. Equal access
to accommodations and services would mean little to people, white
and black, who could not afford them. Randolph s egalitarian vision
of economic and social citizenship is the strong thread running
through the full history of the March on Washington Movement. It
was a movement of sustained grassroots organizing, linked locally
to women s groups, unions, and churches across the country. Jones s
fresh, compelling history delivers a new understanding of this
emblematic event and the broader civil rights movement it
propelled."
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