Thousands expected at Lincoln Memorial to mark 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington.
They plan to call on Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation — something they have sought for years, especially as the Supreme Court in 2013The 1963 March was largely planned and executed by A. Philip Randolph, the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and longtime dean of the Civil Rights movement, and chief organizer Bayard Rustin.
In Birmingham, Ala., that spring, police used dogs and fire hoses to try to disperse demonstrators, many of them children, and imprisoned hundreds who were protesting the city’s racist and segregationist policies. Four months later, on Sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, four African American girls would be killed when the Ku Klux Klan dynamited the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church there.
“The Negro has many pent up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them,” King wrote. “So let him march.”
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