“WE CANNOT WALK ALONE” 28 August 1963: As they hold hands, Martin Luther King and the other leaders of the March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom make history
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MARTIN LUTHER KING AND THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON
With a podium weighed down by microphones in front of him, Dr.Martin Luther King could be forgiven if he showed any sign of nerves. Behind him was a vast statue of Abraham Lincoln gazing down imperiously, the President who’d drawn the curtain on slavery in the US. In front of Dr King was a sight previously unseen by any human eye – a quarter of a million American citizens who’d descended upon the US capital for the historic March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom. And capturing the unprecedented events for a global audience were the massed, unblinking lenses of the world’s media.