This article in the Greenfield Recorder appeared one day after the historic 1963 “March on Washington.” Two hundred thousand people marched in support of federal civil rights legislation and for a national employment program. Despite widespread predictions of violence the march was peaceful. President Kennedy referred to the “quiet dignity” of the protest, a clear contrast to violence directed at the civil rights movement in the South. Interestingly, this article makes no reference to the “I Have a Dream” section of Martin Luther King’s speech that would later become the best-remembered aspect of the event. This Associated Press release is also quite negative about the impact of the event on civil rights legislation stalled in Congress.
Greenfield Recorder-Gazette. “Leaders of March Still Have Not Attained Goal.” August 29, 1963. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l08-009/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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