MARCH ON WASHINGTON MOVEMENT PRESENTS PROGRAM FOR THE NEGRO

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-162
Author(s):  
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
Keyword(s):  
March On Washington

Protesting During a Pandemic: Narratives on Risk Taking and Motivation to Participating in the 2020 March on Washington

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872199933
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cobbina ◽  
Ashleigh LaCourse ◽  
Erika J. Brooke ◽  
Soma Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Media ◽  
March On Washington

The study elucidates the interplay of COVID-19 and the wave of Black Lives Matter protests to assess motivation and risk taking for protest participation. We draw on protesters’ accounts to examine how police violence influenced the participants decision making to participate in the 2020 March on Washington during a pandemic that exacerbated the risks already in place from protesting the police. We found that protesters’ social position and commitment to the cause provided motivations, along with a zeal to do more especially among White protesters. For Black participants, the images in the media resonated with their own experiences of structural racism from police.

scholarly journals The March on Washington, 1963

2002 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fee ◽  
Theodore M. Brown ◽  
Walter J. Lear ◽  
Jan Lazarus ◽  
Paul Theerman
Keyword(s):  
March On Washington

“No Ways Tired”

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Susan J. Brison
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Diminishing Returns ◽  
March On Washington ◽  
Richard Ford ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

We have witnessed a resurgence of mass demonstrations and other public forms of political protest in the Trump era, but are protests becoming less effective and delegitimated—counterproductive, even—precisely because of their frequency, as Richard Ford maintains in “Protest Fatigue”? Granted, more and more of us may be, in the immortal words of Fannie Lou Hamer, “sick and tired of being sick and tired” and, at marches against ever more virulent manifestations of sexism and racism, signs like “I Can’t Believe I Still Have to Protest This Shit” evince a certain weariness and frustration among the dissenting masses. But, in this chapter, I argue that more, not less, protesting—by more people, in more places, on more occasions—is what we need now, since it can have a galvanizing, reinvigorating effect and be no less legitimate than past protests such as demonstrations for women’s suffrage and the March on Washington. Especially in the digital age, mass protests, far from sapping our energy and yielding diminishing returns, have the potential to tap and replenish the ever-renewable resources of hope and solidarity.

Memories of the Movement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Lewis
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
March On Washington ◽  
Reagan Era ◽  
African American Leaders

This chapter contrasts the 1963 March on Washington with its 1983 commemoration event held in the anti-statist Reagan era. In the former, a succession of civil rights activists decried the assumptions of the liberal consensus about the resolution of racial problems. By contrast, in the latter, African American leaders and their supporters called on government to reengage with the postwar commitment to expanding employment opportunities and improving living standards for all Americans.

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