The March on Washington Film

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

In 1963 the movement of the civil rights took it to Birmingham, Alabama. It was a horrible racist place at the time. Eugene Bull Connor was a police officer who wanted to stop Martin Luther King in succeeding into getting African Americans freedom. Young teenagers essentially saved the Civil Rights Movement because they joined in to non-violence protest. Bayard Rustin who was an allie of MLK lead the Montgomery bus movement. Was responsible for organizing another March on Washington in the early 1960’s, that A Philip Randolph had planned for four months. The only way to end it was to make a bill to end segregation. “Race has no place in American place or law” said JFK in his speech to end segregation. The president feared that the March on Washington would be violent and if so it would effect his plan to end equal rights. People thought African Americans marching will be nothing but good, people were in fear over what was going to happen. They planned to get as many people together as possible and get everyone out of town by sundown. They started at nine a.m. During the march people started to feel safer when Joan Baez played we shall overcome during the march. MLK later during the march makes his famous “I have a dream speech”. There was peace in the air and the march was very successful in the end. It was a unpredicted success.