The Ideas Behind the March By DAVID BROOKS
Published: August 26, 2013
As we commemorate the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, it’s worth remembering how close it came to not happening at all. When A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin started shopping the idea, the Urban League declined to support it, the N.A.A.C.P. refused to commit one way or another, and Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were too busy with other challenges to get engaged. President John Kennedy argued that the march would hurt the chances of passing legislation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/opinion/brooks-the-ideas-behind-the-march.html?ref=global-home&_r=0
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