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Aug 20, 2013 · The following is a transcript of A. Philip Randolph's speech on the 1963 March on Washington. It was compiled from an audio transcript done by WGBH. You can listen to the speech on WGBH's...
In the summer of 1941 A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, called for a march on Washington, D.C., to draw attention to the exclusion of African Americans from positions in the national defense industry.
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Of the 17 speakers listed on the march program that day, only John Lewis, then a 23-year-old student leader, is still alive. He now is a 13-term congressman from Georgia. Reached at his office in Atlanta, he brought up the photo op in the Oval Office before being asked about it. He said he has photos from that moment, on the wall and on his desk, i...
He led five marches on Washington. Before the 1963 march, Randolph led three smaller marches in the 1950s for school integration and - even more significantly - made plans for one in the 1940s that never happened. In 1941, with blacks excluded from jobs in the defense industry, Randolph began traveling the country and rallying potential marchers wi...
In the past 50 years, the 18-minute speech delivered by King has only grown in stature, with some of the words carved into a 30-foot rock monument to the man in Washington, with the sound of King’s voice continuing to echo across America on a national holiday every January. Almost forgotten is that there were other speakers and speeches that day, s...
Fifty years after the march, it’s hard to fathom that when Life magazine came out the following week, the cover featured a photo of two men, neither of them Martin Luther King Jr. “The leaders,” it said next to the image of Randolph and Bayard Rustin. There was a moment between two men after the march that Anderson, the author who wrote biographies...
Aug 27, 2020 · A few weeks later, March Director A. Philip Randolph wrote to ask the President to meet with organizers on the morning of August 28, just hours before the official program would begin.
Feb 28, 2023 · In Dr. King’s improvised speech, he added what is now the most famous part of his remarks and the March itself. MLK stated, “And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.” Randolph, Rustin, and the organizers closed the March by reciting The Pledge and bringing forth their demands.
King spent the first portion of his 16-minute speech, completed in the early hours of the morning, developing his metaphor of the founders’ commitment as “a promissory note”, which African-Americans were now ready to cash.
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Oct 29, 2009 · Randolph, King and the other leaders insisted the march should go forward, with King telling the president: “Frankly, I have never engaged in any direct-action movement which did...
