Youth March for Integrated Schools in D.C. Draws More Than 10,000
The March on Washington, on August 28, 1963, is deservedly famous, but there were four previous civil rights marches in Washington. In the period after Brown v. Board of Education, there were three marches for integrated schools, on May 17, 1957, April 18, 1959, and the one held on this day.
Martin Luther King was scheduled to speak at the march on this day, but he had been stabbed by a mentally disturbed woman in New York City shortly before the march, and his speech was delivered by his wife Coretta Scott King.
In the first African-American march on Washington, 5,000 people conducted a silent march in front of the White House and the U.S. Senate building on June 14, 1922 to protest lynching and to call for a federal anti-lynching law.
Read about the Youth March: http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis58.htm
Read the Presidential Delegation Statement: http://www.crmvet.org/docs/5810_youth_statement.pdf
Learn more about marching on Washington: Lucy Barber, Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition (2002)
Visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture here