Monday, August 28, marks the 60th anniversary of The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In memory of her mother, former judge Dianne Briscoe will make the journey to Washington, D.C. this year.
The family of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in collaboration with civil rights leader Al Sharpton, will host an event to commemorate the anniversary on August 26 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.Briscoe's mother, civil rights activist Ruth Cousins Denny, attended The March on Washington in 1963. Not only that, but Denny also worked to make it possible for others to go as well.
"This thing of banning books, and not teaching history, not teaching black history," Briscoe said,"My mother would be appalled, angry, hurt... putting in all of this work to have such hatred going on in this country and things happening that she was trying to fight." But employment wasn't the only concern African Americans were facing at the time of The March on Washington in 1963.
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