What Was The Impact Of The March On Washington

The black community has been on the struggle in order to be seen as equal in the white community which was the majority in the U.S. Years back, black americans have fought for their political and economic equality. On August 28, 1963, a movement called The March on Washington occurred and has had a major impact for the black community in the 60’s and even present day America. During this movement, blacks and whites combined their power in order to end racial discrimination. This march was not violent for its leaders did not believe it is a just action. When one hears the words March on Washington, one would think of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr as the man who has started this change for the fight for equality, but none knew about one of the
There were policies, codes and during the middle of the twentieth century, the Jim Crow laws were passed which meant schools, transportations and even bathrooms were segregated according to skin color. In order to make a change in the community, organizations got together in order to fight for the racial segregation the black community faced. Out of many organizations, CORE, or Congress of Racial Equality, became a part of the Civil Rights movement and used non-violent protests to approach their fight in racial segregation (Website, History.com). Out of its four founders, one stood out and became Doctor King’s partners in organizing this historic event, Bayard Rustin. Having to grow up in a household steeped in ideas of social justice and nonviolence (California Newsreel), impacted the way he grew up to think about fighting for his beliefs. In 1956, he went to Alabama and became a mentor in non-violence to the 26 year old, Martin Luther King (California Newsreel). Many would find this to be a shock because most Americans came to know that Dr. King sparked this movement but it were Rustin’s lectures on nonviolent protests in which the movement came into
This trip to prison was more of an eye opener for Rustin instead of something that will restrict him from achieving his goals. He’s so determined to make the government to realize how their actions affect his own kind and those people who are oppressed under the control of the government. Bayard has been arrested because of his sexuality but this still did not stop him from going for his dream of equality. “Neither Rustin’s sexual openness nor his controversial political positions came without great costs. He wound up behind bars for practicing his nonviolent quaker faith” (Thrasher, Website: BuzzFeed LGBT). A quaker faith is having a belief in nonviolent ways to resolve things. It’s mesmerizing how Rustin takes that into play in order to create a balance in his community. Most importantly, Bayard is a black, gay leader in an era where homosexuals were not welcomed with open arms. This was a challenge he has to overcome in order to make his community open their eyes to see how divided everyone was. “...had an extraordinarily strong sense of himself and of who he was. But when you live in a society where you are constantly told that you’re less that [...] a certain amount gets internalized” (Thrasher, Website: BuzzFeed LGBT). Being a leader, he had to face tons of hate from the white community especially when he has a different sexual orientation. Yet, this did not stop him from