Chittlin' Talk: The 1963 March on Washington

Thursday, April 5, 2007

The 1963 March on Washington

There is a general perception that Dr. Martin Luther King organized the 1963 March on Washington. Actually Dr. King was a part of five civil rights organizations that helped to organize the march. That included Dr. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Students Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Bayard Rustin of CORE were the primary organizers of the march.

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Booker T. Washington said:

"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."