One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation was wrote, African Americans were still battling for equal rights in their everyday life. The first real victory of this movement did not happen until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was shadowed by many boycotts and protests. The biggest of these protests, the March on Washington, happened on August 28, 1963 “for jobs and freedom”. A vast amount of groundwork went into the event to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of citizens attending from around the U.S and to deal with any potential happenings.
According to the march directors, the march would represent their demands of “the passage of the Kennedy Administration Civil Rights Legislation without …show more content…
At the conclusion of the march, Kennedy met with all the directors of the march and stated that “the cause of 20 million Negroes has not only been advanced by the program conducted so appropriately before the Nation’s shrine to the Great Emancipator, but even more significantly is the contribution to all mankind”. Kennedy said that the march was executed very well and contributed greatly. The president expands on this as he describes that “the Negroes struggle was not a struggle for the President or Congress alone, what we’re really talking about is a problem which involves 180 million people”. This shows how the march was not just seen as attempting to get legislation passed in congress, but was also seen more broadly as a battle for civil rights …show more content…
It was viewed by many reporters as largely successful. The March on Washington had an incredible effect on the destiny of the Kennedy Administration’s civil rights bill, but Kennedy was assassinated before the bill was passed. Johnson, who was Kennedy’s vice president, took over and became president, and he signed and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The March on Washington not only aided to pass this legislation, but also made the world see the African Americans’ fight for freedom and their determination to make it
According to the march directors, the march would represent their demands of “the passage of the Kennedy Administration Civil Rights Legislation without …show more content…
At the conclusion of the march, Kennedy met with all the directors of the march and stated that “the cause of 20 million Negroes has not only been advanced by the program conducted so appropriately before the Nation’s shrine to the Great Emancipator, but even more significantly is the contribution to all mankind”. Kennedy said that the march was executed very well and contributed greatly. The president expands on this as he describes that “the Negroes struggle was not a struggle for the President or Congress alone, what we’re really talking about is a problem which involves 180 million people”. This shows how the march was not just seen as attempting to get legislation passed in congress, but was also seen more broadly as a battle for civil rights …show more content…
It was viewed by many reporters as largely successful. The March on Washington had an incredible effect on the destiny of the Kennedy Administration’s civil rights bill, but Kennedy was assassinated before the bill was passed. Johnson, who was Kennedy’s vice president, took over and became president, and he signed and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The March on Washington not only aided to pass this legislation, but also made the world see the African Americans’ fight for freedom and their determination to make it