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I subscribe to a 'thing' called Shorpy.com. It's this guy on the internet, who puts up assorted pictures--they can be images from the Civil War, someone's slides from the fifties, or more important images from major magazines or the Library of Congress. MLK's birthday likely prompted the inclusion of this photo--everyone looks so young!
Check out this picture:
August 1963. "Group portrait of several of the organizers of the March on Washington, among them: Mathew Ahmann, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, John Lewis, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, Whitney Young, A. Philip Randolph, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and Roy Wilkins." Photo by Stanley Tetrick for the Look magazine assignment "Negro march on Washington, D.C."
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Used to have it in my bookmarks...
MADem
(135,425 posts)And, as they say, it's "always something different!"
libodem
(19,288 posts)Proud just to see it.
cinnabonbon
(860 posts)Love the photo.
MADem
(135,425 posts)He wasn't that far outta high school back then!
Everyone looks so happy. I liked it, too.
mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)Women!!
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/27/civil_rights_pioneer_gloria_richardson_91
One battle at a time.
MADem
(135,425 posts)She was a big piece of the MoW.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/08/27/eleanor-norton-march
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)It appears that she was not one of the "big guns" of the March on Washington" but was one of those people who made it happened by their tireless unsung work.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/nation/july-dec13/march_08-21.html
MADem
(135,425 posts)But she was smart as hell!
SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)The female members of the abolitionist movement were similarly shut out. That is one of the reasons such female abolitionists as Susan B. Anthony went on to pursue women's rights with such vigor.
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/susan-b-anthony.html
MI Buckeye
(3 posts)That sure looks like Walter Reuther, President of the UAW, on the right in the back row.
MADem
(135,425 posts)...you have a damn good eye! I agree w/you.
Pic for comparison, same day, different photographer:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. prepares to address an estimated audience of 200,000 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Holding onto Dr. Kings arm is UAW president Walter Reuther.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)City and had to read comments. What a trip!!
MADem
(135,425 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)thank you for this picture. Good Lord, those beautiful brothers (and the Rabbi too!)
MADem
(135,425 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)you for sharing it with us!
reflection
(6,286 posts)I can spend a long time there and not realize it. Spellbinding.
TomClash
(11,344 posts)He did as much as any of these men to organize the March.
Of course, being a gay, Quaker and former member of the Communist Party would tend to get a brother whitewashed.
MADem
(135,425 posts)He did most of the heavy lifting, but he wasn't able to take credit for it.
People were very intolerant back then. There was a real fear that he would "discredit" the movement (I use quotes because the issue was the perceptions of others, not the quality of Mr. Rustin's character) so he had to keep his distance.
POTUS gave Mr. Rustin a posthumous Medal of Freedom this past November. Richly deserved; better late than never.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/transcript/transcript.php?programid=330110
TomClash
(11,344 posts)I pretty much knew all that.
MADem
(135,425 posts)It was very good. Might be able to find it at the library by now.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)For sharing this.
WARNING: SHORPY IS TOTALLY ADDICITNG.
MADem
(135,425 posts)marble falls
(57,083 posts)things.
Today its groups of entertainment and sports figures self congratulating themselves under a corporate logo over stuff that means nothing to no-one past the photo-op.
MADem
(135,425 posts)sight of corporate sponsors' logos! It's become such an 'expected' thing.
The March on Washington....brought to you by Coca-Cola...the pause that refreshes!
marble falls
(57,083 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)thanks!