Recently on view at the Dusable Museum
of African American History, Chicago, IL
In late June of 1963, during a meeting with President Kennedy, the “Big Six” leaders of the Civil Rights Movement informed the President that there would be a March on Washington. It was in that meeting that A. Philip Randolph, the dean of the black leadership, said to President Kennedy in his robust baritone voice, “Mr. President, the black masses are restless and we are going to march on Washington.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation’s capital. Stanley Tretick’s photos depict the organizers and program speakers A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mathew Ahmann, Whitney Young, Floyd McKissick, John Lewis, Walter Reuther, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, and Eugene Carson Blake as they led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom culminating with Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
And Freedom For All contains (48) unpublished photographs from the archives of LOOK magazine photographer Stanley Tretick and depicts the march participants surrounding the Lincoln Memorial; African Americans participating in the March; and President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson at the White House, U.S. Capitol and Lincoln Memorial with Martin Luther King, Jr. and organizers.
Gallery guide available upon request.
AND FREEDOM FOR ALL
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
STANLEY
TRETICK
O N L I N E P H O T O A R C H I V E S
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