THE MARCH Ð 30 minute Ð Black and White
To Be Recorded Narration
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1.
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On August 28, 1963, two hundred thousand Americans came to Washington to demand complete freedom for everyone. This is the story of that day.
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2.
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They came from Los Angeles and San Francisco or about the distance from Moscow to Bombay. 
They came from Cleveland, from Chicago or about the distance from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro. 
They came from Jackson, Mississippi, from Birmingham, Alabama or about the distance from Johannesburg to Dar-es-salaam.
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3.
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By the end of August, 1963, in some places of the United States, a Negro could not go to school where he chose, eat where he wished, build his home where it pleased him or find jobs for which he was qualified.
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The Constitution of the United States guaranties [sic] every American the right to protest peaceably. 200,000 Americans, then, were going to use that right.
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4.
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He had been insulted, beaten, jailed, drenched with water, chased by dogs, but he was coming to Washington, he said, to swallow up hatred in love, to overcome violence by peaceful protest.
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5. 
Many [deletion: illegible] people predicted violence. Negro groups trained themselves to overwhelm it. Armed with portable two-way radios, [struck through: 200] volonteers [sic] scattered throughout the area would keep watch. Should violence come [insertion: then, that day,] they would call for help. Each man would have a code name: FREEDOMÉEQUALITYÉJUSTICEÉJOBS.
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6.
Some said that the Negro could not plan an orderly demonstration. Many said that the March would fail and [deletion: illegible] defeat the Negro cause. Some hoped that it [underlining begins] would [underlining ends] defeat the Negro cause.
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7. Three hundred and fifty years [deletion: earlier] [insertion: ago], the white man came to America, and three hundred and fifty years [deletion: earlier] [insertion: ago] the Negro came to America. The one came as master, the other [deletion: came] as slave.
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8. One hundred years [deletion: earlier] [insertion: ago], Abraham Lincoln declared as President of the United States that all slaves would hence forward be set free. Now, both black and white Americans were preparing to march [deletion: in the nationÕs capitol [sic]] to say that a century later, the black man still was not completely free.
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9. If I am not free you are not free. If one man on earth is partly enslaved, the world is not completely free.
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5. Some People predicted violence. The Negro prepared himself to overwhelm it without outside help. If violence should come, [deletion: illegible] trained volonteers [sic] throughout the march area whould [sic] spot it,
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10. [circled in blue ink] It was every manÕs duty then, to help every other man.
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11. [circled in blue ink] In New York, volunteers worked for two days and two nights to make lunches for the march. They made Eighty thousand cheese sandwiches.
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12. [circled in blue ink] The pins said: ÒI MARCH FOR JOBS AND FREEDOMÓ. Everyone who marched wore one. [two vertical lines in blue ink] The two hundred thousand people who were to march [insertion: that day] were held together by the strength of that pin.
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13. In the night few people had arrived. Negro leaders [deletion: illegible] feared that their work had failed. Those who did come waited singing.
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14. There were many who praised this day and said that there had been a new awakening in the conscience of the nation. 
Others called it a national disgrace. 
In the wake of this day, more violence was to come, more hatred,
But in the long history of manÕs cruelty to man, [deletion: here] [insertion: This] was a day of hope.
[handwritten note: [illegible] ÒArrivedÓ in red pencil.]

"THE MARCH -- 30 minute -- Black and White, To Be Recorded Narration," James Blue papers, Coll 458, Box 61, Folder 7, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon. Copyright Richard Blue. Reproduced with permission.