Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued his resounding call for racial harmony that set off decades of push and pull toward progress.
The issues today appear eerily similar to the issues in 1963. The undercurrent of it all is that Black people are still the economically poorest in American society.
King also said America had given Black Americans a check for equality that had been marked “insufficient funds” in the bank of justice. “Civil disobedience attracts the hardcore few,” he added, “but when you get 250,000 people together on the National Mall, you serve notice on the political leaders of the day.”a Pew Research Center report
It’s difficult to blame those with a pessimistic view of racial progress, considering most of the key measures of socioeconomics in America. “I was on the staff in New York and was the last person to leave because we were getting people on the buses,” she said. “And as I flew from New York to Washington, I could see that the march would be a success because as far as the eye could see, there were crowds. We weren’t sure how big because there had never been such a large march before, but it was overwhelming.”
“Unlike the kind of atmosphere we had during the March on Washington, we have exactly the opposite now,” Norton said. That’s also been true of police reform legislation proposed after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis and during unprecedented racial justice demonstrations nationwide. The Floyd legislation was before Congress whenthat featured several families of Black victims of police brutality.
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