THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON
Pt. 2 - 1963 Civil Rights - THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON Washington, DC, Aug 29, 1963; ""We Shall Overcome"" (sync sound) VS of Washington monuments; Train pulls into station, demonstrators disembark, VS, good shots of people and buses arriving, women with curlers in hair, carry suitcases; VO, ""By 9:30 it is estimated that 40,000 had assembled, but it's more like a Sunday outing."""" Washington landmarks, Lincoln memorial, crowds of people gathering; Banners, ""? Pennsylvania Marches for Jobs & Freedom."" VO, ""By 11:30, there are more than 200,000 thronging the mall, a crowd that is bigger than the most optimistic forecasts."" VS, including aerials of demonstration, good. VO, ""Few realize that, in a sense, they are participants in an historical day. It would become part of the American scene that today's gathering is the largest in Washington's history."" Front line of march includes Roy Wilkins, Asa Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr, Walter Reuther (?) head of auto workers; Placards, """"We March for First Class Citizenship Now!"" ""We Demand an End to Police Brutality Now!"" ""Southern Christian Leadership Conference,"" ""We March for Integrated Schools Now!"" ""We March for Jobs for all Now!"" VO mentions how authorities expected trouble but there was little; Good CU's of marchers; 1:47:37 Aerial of Washington Mall, full of people, good; Demonstrator high up in tree waving placard; Martin Luther King, Jr at podium; JFK, LBJ with Civil Rights movement leadership, men only; King speech (sync sound), """"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equally. I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves, and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood; ""I have a dream"" speech accompanied by VS of crowd, Black and white, women, children and men; NAACP caps, good CU's