Left to Right: John Lewis of the Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Whitney Young, Jr. of the National Urban League, A. Phillip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the Negro American Labor Council, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
"March on Washington: A massive public demonstration that articulated the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. It was A. Philip Randolph who conceived the march. In 1941 his threat to assemble 100,000 African Americans in the capital helped convince President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign an executive order banning discrimination in the defense industries and creating the Fair Employment Practices Committee. More than 20 years later, Randolph revived his idea. His primary interest, as always, was jobs - African Americans were disproportionately unemployed and underpaid." http://www.founders.howard.edu/Reference/Webliographies/JohnLewis/BigSixFiles/index.htm
To hear A. Philip Randolph, click http://www.hpol.org/civilrights/march1963/randolph.ram
To hear John Lewis, click http://www.hpol.org/civilrights/march1963/lewis.ram
To hear Roy Wilkins, click http://www.hpol.org/civilrights/march1963/wilkins.ram
To hear Whitney Young, Jr., click http://www.hpol.org/civilrights/march1963/young.ram
To hear Martin Luther King, click http://www.hpol.org/mlk/test.smil
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