They initially thought at least 100,000 people would gather but now predict 50,000.
cases climbed nationally, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser issued a strict warning to visitors from states with elevated caseloads: A two-week quarantine is required. That prompted the National Action Network to cancel chartered buses that, according to field organizers, had been scheduled to bring thousands of demonstrators from states such as North Carolina, Ohio and Texas.The permit paints a picture of a complex undertaking meant to highlight the historic legacy of the 1963 March on Washington.
Jumbotrons will line the Reflecting Pool, where crowds will be cordoned off into marked areas, each assigned a number. The sections will ensure participants are able to stay at least six feet from other protesters, according to the permit. The event’s main lineup — including the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, the elder son of the civil rights leader — will begin at 11 a.m., but a pre-rally show is also planned. After early criticism from D.C. activists that the demonstration excluded local residents who have lost family members to police violence, the speaker lineup indicates several D.C. residents will speak, although none from the region’s Black Lives Matter chapter.
A television crew from Bravo will film a reality show called “Married to Medicine,” about doctors and their spouses, as members of the cast and crew help administer free coronavirus tests to attendees, according to the Park Service permit.The Friday march — dubbed the “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” March on Washington — will begin with speeches from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, followed by a choreographed march to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in West Potomac Park.
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