Saturday Open Thread: The March on Washington in Pictures

August 31, 2013 by pragobots 129 Comments

GOOD MORNING P.O.U.!

We conclude our March on Washington pictorial with a look at “The Big Six”…

US clergyman and civil rights leader Martin Luther King (3rd R) and other major American leaders of the Black civil rights movement (L from R) John Lewis, Whitney Young, Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, James Farmer and Roy Wilkins, meet 06 March 1963 in Roosevelt Hotel in New York during a meeting dedicated to the organization of the "March on Washington"(Photo: OFF/AFP/Getty Images) — (L from R) John Lewis, Whitney Young, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, James Farmer and Roy Wilkins, meet 06 March 1963 in Roosevelt Hotel in New York during a meeting dedicated to the organization of the “March on Washington” (Photo: OFF/AFP/Getty Images)

Baynard Rustin outlines the marchers’ plan of action on a map of Washington. (Photo: NY Daily News)

Civil rights leader gather in front of the Lincoln Memorial before the march (Estate of Stanley Tretick)

On the morning of the march, civil rights leaders (including Martin Luther King, foreground left, and John Lewis, foreground right) first met with members of Congress (Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, center). (Photo: Estate of of Stanley Tretick)

Courtland Cox and John Lewis and others pause to discuss the March on Washington (Photo: Ebony Magazine)

Dr, King comforts Sylvia Johnson after girl was overcome in crowd. (Photo: Frank Hurley/NY Daily News)

Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson after the march (Estate of Stanley Tretick)

Engraved pocket watch given to Baynard Rustin from Dr. King (Courtesy of National Museum of American History) — Dr. King gave this engraved pocket watch to Baynard Rustin (Courtesy of National Museum of American History)