Scenes from The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Black and White Americans gather in large numbers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC to promote Civil Rights. African American civil rights leader, Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth delivers speech to the crowd gathered. Folk Singer, Joan Baez, sings her song "All My Trails" and plays guitar.
Actor and activist Ossie Davis introduces fellow actor Burt Lancaster who makes a speech at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002) in Washington DC during the civil rights "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". African American and white citizens gather in large numbers at the event. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in background.
African Americans and white Americans gather in large numbers at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States) in Washington DC during the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" to promote Civil Rights. Dignitaries wave at the crowd. Crowd cheers. Black American singers of the Eva Jessye Choir, directed by Eva Jessye, sing before the introduction of Civil Rights activist and leader Roy Wilkins, who delivers his opening remarks.
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, President of Morehouse College, leads crowd in benediction prayer at closing of the official program of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington DC, during the Civil Rights movement. Dr. Mays speaking at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States). Large crowd of white and African American participants seen near White House.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walking with organized Labor leader Walter Reuther, and African American leaders including John Lewis, arriving outside the White House in Washington DC. Press and photographers surround them. A. Philip Randolph speaks to the reporters. Mr. Roy Wilkins and Martin Luther King Jr., Walter Reuther, and John Lewis standing nearby. Representative of the Roman Catholic group commission speaks. Labor leader Walter Reuther speaks. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr makes a statement. Black American singers lead the crowd in singing "We shall overcome" in Civil Rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Thousands link arms and sing and sway together to the melody (during the March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom).
A British film entitled, "People to People." Four British working men, visiting America, are seen in overcoats on the deck of a ship passing the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor during World War II. They are accompanied by four American workers who were returning on the same ship, from a similar visit to England. Closeup of the eight men, named by the narrator, who calls them trade unionists on an exchange visit. Brief view of Chiang Kai-Shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference in 1943.Camera pans closeup over Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-Shek. Brief views of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943. Closeup of Roosevelt and Churchill, with Anthony Eden standing immediately behind them. Closeup of Stalin and Roosevelt, with U.S. Army Air Force Chief, General Henry H.(Hap) Arnold and British General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, conversing behind them. Scene shifts back to the men aboard the ship in New York harbor, with the New York City Manhattan skyline of buildings in the background. Next, the eight men are seen climbing steps to New York City Hall. Inside they are welcomed by New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The group is then seen entering a building in Washington, DC, where they sit down at a table with Donald Nelson, Head of the U.S. War Production Board. In the Department of Labor building they meet William Hammatt Davis, Head of the War Labor Board, and also the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins. After that they are seen heading into the White House, where they are met by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who comes out of the White House to greet them on the porch. (Narrator says she later invited them inside for tea.) The men are next seen climbing the Capitol steps. Vice President Henry A. Wallace comes out to greet them and comments about industrial production not only during the war, but in the time of peace to follow.
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