Category: Rustin
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Randolph, Rustin, and the Origins of the March on Washington: Crash Course Black American History 32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDNkw13NAA0 The March on Washington of 1963 is an enduring and widely-known event of the Civil Rights movement. But the March has its roots in an earlier planned March on Washington that didn’t happen. In 1941, labor leader A. Philip Randolph began planning a gathering aimed at many of the same goals as the eventual…