American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century by Gary Gerstle

Author:Gary Gerstle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

Fig. 26. “Jobs and Freedom” at the March on Washington, 1963. Participants in the March on Washington, August 1963. In a line moving right to left at the center of the photograph are a number of march organizers and civil rights leaders, including Walter Reuther, president of the UAW (his face partially obscured by a sign); A. Philip Randolph, co-organizer of the march; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP; Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League; Joseph Rauh Jr., liberal activist and lobbyist; and Joachim Prinz of the American Jewish Congress. Note the many signs calling for “jobs and freedom” and “jobs for all,” an economic demand of the marchers that slipped the notice of observers at the time and of many who have written about the march’s history. (Courtesy Library of Congress)

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