The March on Washington March was gathered this morning on the broad lawns around the Washington

much.

At the March on Washington, more than a quarter of a million people gathered at the Lincoln

Memorial in the summer of 1963.

Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic speech.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its crease.

Civil rights activist Cortland Cox was there that day,

a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or

Snick.

He was one of many black activists who helped organize the march.

The March of Washington only

reason it took six weeks to organize is that black people by that time had been

going through demonstrations for three years, sit-ins,

freedom rights and so forth and they were sick and tired of being

sick and tired.

During this time, Cox was working to register black people to vote in the South.

It was dangerous work for Cox and dangerous for black people who wanted to vote.

You had a situation where across the South, black people were not allowed to vote.

And if they tried to vote, in in fact they would have to be subjected to

economic and physical violence so what we had was a group of people who thought that

black people should not be real citizens of the

United States and not participated in democracy. The right to vote was one of the many

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