Early in the morning of August 28, 1963, hours before the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was ro begin, Courtland Cox, a top official from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, walked to the still-deserted National Mall with the chief organizer of the march, Bayard Rustin. In the quiet. as mist rose from the reflectin pool, Cox turned to Rustin, and said "Do you think anybody's coming".
They came. They arrived by bus, train, and car. That day some 250,000 people joined one another in the hope and belief that change was possible.
Dr. Martin Luther King made his famous speech. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal".
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