Martin Luther King, Jr. And the Civil Rights Movement by John A. Kirk

Martin Luther King, Jr. And the Civil Rights Movement by John A. Kirk

Author:John A. Kirk [Kirk, John A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, United States, 20th Century
ISBN: 9781317607311
Google: OLNwAwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 17630715
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-23T00:00:00+00:00


Part 4

King and an Expanding Movement, 1963–1965

8

The March on Washington, 1963

The 1963 March on Washington had its origins in a similar demonstration planned by A. Philip Randolph in 1941, which he had threatened to lead if President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not act to combat racial discrimination in wartime industries. After Roosevelt met with Randolph and agreed to take action the planned march was cancelled. Roosevelt subsequently issued Executive Order 8802, which banned racial discrimination in wartime industry hiring practices, and set up the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) to enforce the ban.

On a December afternoon in 1962, at the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union office in New York City, Randolph and Bayard Rustin discussed the idea of reprising a ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom’ to mark the 100th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and to focus attention on the ongoing problems of black employment opportunities and economic injustice.



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