I cannot express how grateful I am to just under 250,000 marchers made up of Negroes and 60,000 white participants who participated in the March. Your determination to be the present while we deliver our specious at nation’s capital is clearly shown with more than 2,000 buses, 21 chartered trains, 10 chartered airliners, and uncounted cars converged on Washington to show our support. What impressed me, just as much is all regularly scheduled planes, trains, and buses were also filled to capacity.
I think this shows that we American support standing up for civil and economic rights for African Americans and the one the most basic fundamental rights of American citizen, the right to vote. I do not just only say this to the just under 250,000 …show more content…
James Farmer who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality or more simply known as CORE.
John Lewis who is now a leader in the Civil Rights Movement as president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Roy Wilkins whose hard work and determination is shown going all the way back to 1955, when he was given the title executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also known as NAACP. Who was more than earned his excellent reputation as an articulate spokesperson in this Civil Rights Movement. I’ve had the pleasure of working with him not only in his participation in this March on Washington, but also in the Selma to Montgomery marches which have taken place earlier this year.
There is also myself Martin Luther King and Whitney Young who had helped make this match what it is to today.
And of course A. Philip Randolph who has been great at being us together and on behalf of (NALC), (SCLC), (CORE), and (SNCC), wrote a note on the 24 May 1962 to Secretary Stewart Udall of the Department of the Interior regarding permits for a march culminating at the Lincoln Memorial that fall. While it doesn’t change the fact that Plans for that march were delayed when Udall urged groups to reconsider due to due to multiple factors including volume of tourists and rerouting
I think this shows that we American support standing up for civil and economic rights for African Americans and the one the most basic fundamental rights of American citizen, the right to vote. I do not just only say this to the just under 250,000 …show more content…
James Farmer who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality or more simply known as CORE.
John Lewis who is now a leader in the Civil Rights Movement as president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Roy Wilkins whose hard work and determination is shown going all the way back to 1955, when he was given the title executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also known as NAACP. Who was more than earned his excellent reputation as an articulate spokesperson in this Civil Rights Movement. I’ve had the pleasure of working with him not only in his participation in this March on Washington, but also in the Selma to Montgomery marches which have taken place earlier this year.
There is also myself Martin Luther King and Whitney Young who had helped make this match what it is to today.
And of course A. Philip Randolph who has been great at being us together and on behalf of (NALC), (SCLC), (CORE), and (SNCC), wrote a note on the 24 May 1962 to Secretary Stewart Udall of the Department of the Interior regarding permits for a march culminating at the Lincoln Memorial that fall. While it doesn’t change the fact that Plans for that march were delayed when Udall urged groups to reconsider due to due to multiple factors including volume of tourists and rerouting