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Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March on Washington (2021)

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The Black Unemployed in Harlem

The march was announced to the world in early june of 19 63. The only problem was we didn't know how many people would come. We worked six days a week, day and night, engaging an outweek to as many god people as we could. I calculated that where there going to be about 90 thousand people at the march based on the number of busses who had been charted,. And i was depressed. But richel had forgotten about all the people driving to the march themselves, or buying their own tickets to travel there. So they did their best. They planned to have people with maps stationed along the turnpike to help drivers who got lost. There were

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