Saturday's event was smaller than the historic 1963 gathering, but marchers and speakers vowed to continue battling racism and inequities to fulfill Martin Luther King’s dream.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— As a teenager in 1963, Ann Breedlove rode in a caravan of buses and cars from Albany, Georgia, to the March on Washington. It took more than a day, she said, but the journey proved to be pivotal.
“I see many little children and young people walking around here and they will remember this day as a day that they were present for something that mattered,” said Breedlove, who now lives in Atlanta. “That’s what it was like for me. I wasn’t into social justice as a teenager. But coming to the march changed me. And that’s what this can do for these children here.”
“It’s a shift, a change that has taken place,” Breedlove said. “It’s too bad we are still talking about these issues. But our leaders and Black people are speaking louder. We’re tired — sick and tired — of asking for justice. It’s time to fight back. I’m a great grandmother who remembers the Ku Klux Klan raiding our house and us having to get under the bed when they came on their horses. Today is different. That’s not happening. But we still are getting it in different ways.
“Today was a day to show our strength — thousands of you, 60 years later, are here to say that we are the continuation of a movement,” he said. The anniversary march drew a diverse crowd concerned about a range of issues from racism and abortion access to LGBTQ rights.Sharpton, Martin Luther King III and others then led supporters on a march in the 90-degree heat from the Lincoln Memorial to the King Memorial. For 18-year-old Karim Martin of Cleveland, the march was an affirmation.
But he said former U.N. Ambassador and civil rights figure Andrew Young’s speech, which partly centered on focusing on the progress over the concerns, settled him.Elias Williams for NBC News
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