The Socialists Who Made the March on Washington

The Socialists Who Made the March on Washington

 Harold Meyerson.

 Rustin, working both with and for the unchallenged leader of the civil-rights movement, the venerable A. Philip Randolph, became the central figure in taking that movement national. For Rustin and Randolph, as for King, Baker, Levison, Harrington, Horowitz, and Kahn, the challenge confronting African Americans was always two-fold: to tear down the legal edifice of segregation that imperiled and degraded Southern blacks, and to remake the American economy into a more egalitarian social democracy under which—and only under which—black Americans could actually prosper.

  This was the genesis of the network of democratic socialists who seven years later were to conceive, organize, and set the themes for the March on Washington.
See the details of the Saturday march below.

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