The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom has been rightfully memorialized as an iconic moment in American history, particularly as the venue where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his immortal “I Have A Dream” speech. Yet a deeper look at the March on Washington can offer a richer understanding of what made the Civil Rights Movement possible, and what organizers today can emulate in the ongoing struggle for racial and economic justice. Beyond the leading lights of the day such as Bayard Rustin, James Baldwin, and A. Phillip Randolph, there was a multiracial, working-class movement that drew together unions and churches, student organizations, and more. Larry S. Gibson and Marc Steiner, both of whom attended the March on Washington 60 years ago, look back on that day and the lessons to be found in the grooves of a history too often presented as one-dimensional.
Larry S. Gibson is a lawyer, political organizer, and former Associate Deputy Attorney General for President Jimmy Carter.
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Thank you to the 250 thousand ppl that attended and represented the best of America. â¤ðŸ¤²ðŸ¦¶
Thank you, Mark Steiner, Max, and Professor Larry Gibson on this discussion on the March to Washington DC with Dr. Martin Luther KingJr. with all the organizers that were involved with agreements and some who thought a transitional way to place it all together .
As I have grown older, I gained more wisdom by reading many daunting books of history and world histories on all sides.
Bayard Rustin and A.Phillip Randolf we readily regard their contribution.
Sadly, at that time, women could not speak. Many wanted to be involved, even Coreeta King, but it was a man's world dominated by men. Again, there were many women who were behind the scenes, some none may have never heard of. Many writers we have to thank, also.
Furthermore, if I also may add of the contributions of many artists as Joan Baez and Harry Belafonte.
Harry Belafonte was an extradinary example and was very close to Dr. Martin Luther KingJr and stood firm with causes even until his death recently. I have listened to his many stories also, as one knows he contributed greatly to Dr. KingJr.'s efforts out of his own pocket. He helped organize other musicians and singers to do what they could. I mean Tony Bennett and the composer of the NYC Philamonic, Leonard Bernstein, many others and the woman I greatly admired was Nina Simone's beauty with her voice of Jazz, for she also could play Bach, and was denied to get in a conservatory of music when she was young . The lyrics she wrote was on fire as she stood beside Dr. Martin Luther KingJr. with her music.
Moving forward with truth of Dr. King's dream burning light within our hearts .
May we not forget there were also many poor blacks, browns and whites in our country then and now, as homelessness has grown increasingly rampant due to laws of greed of powers, just as restrictions of the voting rights acts and gerrymandering, corporate greed. Books being removed in our libraries, state against state again. War for profits, and many veterans still die on our streets, guns readily available for one another to murder one another and law inforcement still at odds with one another by higher powers of enforcement. Black men and women still being murdered to this day. This has been years in the making with politicians on all sides, making this mass insanity worse. Corporate media with the big business telling them what to say.
Today the man I grew up loving and who was a hero to me sice a small child of crispy creame white. Dr. Martin Luther KingJr, I would believe undoubtedly think his that his dream was not followed through upon.
This election of 2024 is the important one in my lifetime, and many writers and journalists we owe them their contributions to tell the truth to powers, as The Real Network does, also others .
With the deepest appreciation and respect for all of you today.
Thank you Mr. Steiner and Professor Gibson for your contributions in the March on Washington DC, extending forward through these years. May I also, appoligise for being late to listening to this one.
Cornel West for president 2024!!!!â¤
Message to the Rad-Libs – token appointments of diversity performing the executive maintenance of neoliberalism and the national security state isn't progress – it's regression through inverted totalitarianism.
Malcolm X: (38:26)
Once they formed it, with the white man over it, he promised them and gave them $800,000 to split up between the Big Six, and told them that after the march was over they’d give them $700,000 more. A million and a half dollars split up between leaders that you’ve been following, going to jail for, crying crocodile tears for, and they’re nothing but Frank James and Jesse James and the what-you-call-it brothers. ×תה ×ž×œ× ×‘×–×”
No offense, but this is why The Real News has funding struggles. This is just liberal nostalgia, and nobody cares today.
What did this march accomplish??? This seems a bit sad that still we can't deal with the deeper truths here…….
I heard MLK was sent in to weaken this rally. All hope and change, no substance or concrete actions
I have a secret to tell everyone from my research that I am doing currently.
Ok so,
you know that the Egyptians believed in afterlife right? not limited too just the Egyptians considering many entities did study from them by privilege .
However- When these pharaohs or high priestess/queens were buried, they often placed things within their coffins, we know this right? Absolutely well…
The things that the Egyptians had placed within their coffins were for the purpose of afterlife. What they lived with that would carry their soul for their returning, correct?
Ok so… I was told "NOT TO PICK UP THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD YET" but it makes sense considering I figured out a significant sign of times-
People have unburied many significant KINGS of EGYPT-
Museums have excavated many places & tombs that held many antiquities, relics, corpses, etc that have vanquished from where they had been originally placed.
Those artifacts or pieces belonging to "people waiting to return" have been held in corporate museums ,in peoples homes, or places that limited all growth so what did that say for the afterlife of these EGYPTIANS?(THE CHOSEN AFRICAN)
They were stolen from get it? meaning that we are in that afterlife of them, waiting to return.
No wonder we all are still living within times where simple civil rights are overlooked and suppressed.
Not only that- how many of us learned recently about the EUROPEAN COUNTRIES that still own countries as many Africans are sitting poor?
Was this a thought from the people who host any relics from the past via Egyptian? or… are we all now owed the right to not be suppressed?
This revelation is almost seemingly intentional considering- we are just now learning how corrupt and organized this system against consciousness for AFRICANS and BLACKS is.
It is systematic and institutionalized, however- how many blacks or Africans have elevated enough to get this thought about why "BLACKS WENT FROM EGYPT TO SLAVERY TO FIGHTING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS TO NOW STILL NOT GETTING EQUAL TREATMENT" ?
yet,
UKRAINIANS ARE GETTING MONEY FOR WHAT THEY CAUSED–
Florida and Some Texas schools have banned critical thinking or AP classes for Black Studies– yet today we got it right.
They placed us in museums to be viewed, now we are alive again
& there is not alot of us.
​ @TheQuietestRevolution
I tag amber because her viewers always need to show their current states in order for her to be accurate- I just give the archetypical overview.
The Full Moon Forecast.
I have a secret to tell everyone from my research that I am doing currently.
Ok so,
you know that the Egyptians believed in afterlife right? not limited too just the Egyptians considering many entities did study from them by privilege .
However- When these pharaohs or high priestess/queens were buried, they often placed things within their coffins, we know this right? Absolutely well…
The things that the Egyptians had placed within their coffins were for the purpose of afterlife. What they lived with that would carry their soul for their returning, correct?
Ok so… I was told "NOT TO PICK UP THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD YET" but it makes sense considering I figured out a significant sign of times-
People have unburied many significant KINGS of EGYPT-
Museums have excavated many places & tombs that held many antiquities, relics, corpses, etc that have vanquished from where they had been originally placed.
Those artifacts or pieces belonging to "people waiting to return" have been held in corporate museums ,in peoples homes, or places that limited all growth so what did that say for the afterlife of these EGYPTIANS?(THE CHOSEN AFRICAN)
They were stolen from get it? meaning that we are in that afterlife of them, waiting to return.
No wonder we all are still living within times where simple civil rights are overlooked and suppressed.
Not only that- how many of us learned recently about the EUROPEAN COUNTRIES that still own countries as many Africans are sitting poor?
Was this a thought from the people who host any relics from the past via Egyptian? or… are we all now owed the right to not be suppressed?
This revelation is almost seemingly intentional considering- we are just now learning how corrupt and organized this system against consciousness for AFRICANS and BLACKS is.
It is systematic and institutionalized, however- how many blacks or Africans have elevated enough to get this thought about why "BLACKS WENT FROM EGYPT TO SLAVERY TO FIGHTING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS TO NOW STILL NOT GETTING EQUAL TREATMENT" ?
yet,
UKRAINIANS ARE GETTING MONEY FOR WHAT THEY CAUSED–
Florida and Some Texas schools have banned critical thinking or AP classes for Black Studies– yet today we got it right.
They placed us in museums to be viewed, now we are alive again
& there is not alot of us.
​ @TheQuietestRevolution
I tag amber because her viewers always need to show their current states in order for her to be accurate- I just give the archetypical overview.
The Full Moon Forecast.
I have a secret to tell everyone from my research that I am doing currently.
Ok so,
you know that the Egyptians believed in afterlife right? not limited too just the Egyptians considering many entities did study from them by privilege .
However- When these pharaohs or high priestess/queens were buried, they often placed things within their coffins, we know this right? Absolutely well…
The things that the Egyptians had placed within their coffins were for the purpose of afterlife. What they lived with that would carry their soul for their returning, correct?
Ok so… I was told "NOT TO PICK UP THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD YET" but it makes sense considering I figured out a significant sign of times-
People have unburied many significant KINGS of EGYPT-
Museums have excavated many places & tombs that held many antiquities, relics, corpses, etc that have vanquished from where they had been originally placed.
Those artifacts or pieces belonging to "people waiting to return" have been held in corporate museums ,in peoples homes, or places that limited all growth so what did that say for the afterlife of these EGYPTIANS?(THE CHOSEN AFRICAN)
They were stolen from get it? meaning that we are in that afterlife of them, waiting to return.
No wonder we all are still living within times where simple civil rights are overlooked and suppressed.
Not only that- how many of us learned recently about the EUROPEAN COUNTRIES that still own countries as many Africans are sitting poor?
Was this a thought from the people who host any relics from the past via Egyptian? or… are we all now owed the right to not be suppressed?
This revelation is almost seemingly intentional considering- we are just now learning how corrupt and organized this system against consciousness for AFRICANS and BLACKS is.
It is systematic and institutionalized, however- how many blacks or Africans have elevated enough to get this thought about why "BLACKS WENT FROM EGYPT TO SLAVERY TO FIGHTING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS TO NOW STILL NOT GETTING EQUAL TREATMENT" ?
yet,
UKRAINIANS ARE GETTING MONEY FOR WHAT THEY CAUSED–
Florida and Some Texas schools have banned critical thinking or AP classes for Black Studies– yet today we got it right.
They placed us in museums to be viewed, now we are alive again
& there is not alot of us.
​ @TheQuietestRevolution
I tag amber because her viewers always need to show their current states in order for her to be accurate- I just give the archetypical overview.
The Full Moon Forecast.
Today EVERYONE IS DESTROYING what Doctor King did !! Everyone the government, media , black leaders Everyone !!!
Renew the spirit of the past!
The cause is the same, social-economic justice and civil rights in a real democracy.
majority of Americans either homeless, or living paycheck to paycheck not mention having mortgage to deal with, on top of all these, Materialism is so prevailing today, tittytainment, drugs, fentanyl helps some to stay numb from painful reality. No one cares about civil right, more cares about LGBTQ n wht gender they belong to: male, female or others😮
Am̩n to y'all Рmy heroes!
"When the music is strong, the movement is strong." – Harry Belafonte
Dub comt, don't worry I hate myself, well as much as a good socialist in this society should;). Job=freedom in my modern mind, wish it wasn't like that but in acidify capitalism… I.e the endless growth despite the ecology we live under…. There is nothing but monitery gain and I'm not getting it even thought I take care of the boomers that did.
Maybe some day we will stand up again, this time we wont be put in the ground for 60 yearrs. In my perfect world;)
Brautiful duet at the end! Thank you!
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. & NOW ??
Dr. King, one of the most influential black leaders
Was born to a minister and a teacher of school.
Educated to where he earned his PH.D.
Becoming a pastor marching against what was unfair and cruel.
Leading a boycott to protest bus segregation
As he preached and marched for freedom for all
He was jailed, threatened, spat on and beaten
As for peaceful demonstration he would call.
Marching to Washington, In 1963
Voicing concern for the plight of the poor.
Soon thereafter, he was killed by a sniper
In Memphis, supporting workers’ rights and more.
Dr. King will be remembered down through history
With words for all to prayerfully remember.
To be judged, not by color, but by character
Shunning violence never to surrender.
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Thank you!!! Please do one on the Washington Moratorium tooâ¤ðŸ‘
This time around it should be 2 million to protest all the socialist BS that's ruining the country.
Thanks for the good work
I was there, too, and I attended maybe 10 protests here and in several other cities. We wanted equality, justice and freedom. I'm still fighting for our Constitutional rights today. I have been beat up by the cops and thrown in jail. I feel I am a reincarnation of Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death."
Excellent documentary as always.
Thanks for this video