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i The Boston Globe Thursday. August 29. 1963 11 PhiVs March-Dream Come True After 23 Years Rights Bill Path Rated Still Uphill 210,000 Heroes Good Manners Ruled the Day By MARY McGRORY WASHINGTON "The hero is you," Ralph Bunche told the multitude gathered at the Lincoln Memorial and all around the Reflecting Pool. He was right. There was never WASHINGTON (UPI) Con- gressional backers of civil rights legislation today join V- If i 1 lv i I v-y leaders of the march on Wash ington in voicing hope that the massive demonstration will By JIMMY BRESLIN NEW YORK The little guy's hands were shaking when he got up to introduce A.S.A.

Philip Randolph to the crowd in the Old Wooden Church halL This was a soft, September night in 1940 at Savannah, and there was a chance somebody was going to wind up in jail because of what Randolph was going to say. He was going to get up and ask for a huge march on Washington, with as many as 10,000 people in it, so the Negro could protest against job discrimination in defense plants and segregation in the Army. The little guy said something about our next speaker and then he turned and got off the platform in one jump. He went to the back of the hall and sat right next to the door. He wanted to be able to hear the police cars before they pulled up.

Pretty soon, half the people in the church hall were coming down the aisle to get near the door. For this idea Phil Randolph was up there telling them about simply was too big for them. It took time for people to grow up to what Randolph wanted of them. So Wednesday, on a day that moved you, and moved you as no day has moved you in the little of life you have seen, old Phil Randolph walking under the trees on Constitution Av. in Washington.

All around him people were singing and this old, stick-straight, white-haired man in the severe black suit turned to Walter Reuther, the labor leader, and said that this was the way it always should have been. "This does it," Phil Randolph said. "I feel that my life now is complete. The dream is ullfilled, and I guess a man cannot ask for much more." strengthen their cause. such a crowd.

The realists admitted it probably did not chance a single vote in Congress. The congressional delegation of almost 100 who sat on the If the March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom was born in indignation and protest, it flowered in a frivolity that the civil rights movement has never known before. A spirit of gentleness and mutual consideration pervaded the whole affair from start to finish. Nobody needed to exhort the 210,000 people sun-scorched steps of the Lincoln Memorial to attend the hugh rally were basically dis posed toward the aims of the McGRORY march before they went. They were unanimous in praising the demonstration to behave themselves.

That had been done before. It seemed as though each one present had decided that the whole future of the race depended on his own self-discipline. "I HAVE A DREAM of brotherhood." Dr. Martin Luther King casts word-spell on thousands at rights march by a speech described by re-deeply moved, said of King afterward, porter as unequalled. Like tolling of bell he repeated, "Let freedom ring," and "The time is now." One marcher said of King afterward, "Some powerhouse!" (UPI) and in voicing relief that the disorders, which no one wanted but many feared, did not occur.

In the heat and the crush, But they went back to Hill to face the sobering the air was full of, "Excuse me" and, "I'm sorry." worker, a white woman from South Carolina, watched them pass. "I'm not sympathetic to all the purposes of this demonstra- "It's like a baseball crowd or a saia an eiatea Got Over." Then she began to belt the song and clap her hands and pretty soon the huge crowd spread out on the lawns and malls began to pick it up. The people who sat on Rnv Wilkin he surveved itition," she said, "but I must King Lets Freedom Ring, 200,000 Hearts Attuned from the steps of the they can teach this nation fact that major parts of President Kennedy's civil rights package still face an uphill fight in Congress. Senate Democratic whip Hubert H. Humphrey summed up the dilemma when he told reporters that the demonstration Memorial with the other a lesson in gooa manners.

When they reached the Me both sides of the long pool "This is only the beginning," Reuther said. "This fuels your soul." "Do you remember anything about that night in Savannah?" Randolph was esked. His face broke into a smile, and the old man laughed. "So proceeded to make my presentation even stronger." He laughed again. 'Oh, everybody was afraid then.

which runs between the Wash ington and Lincoln Monu itself probably changed no lawmaker's mind. ments had their feet in the water. They began to kick and morial, the leaders greeted their friends with kisses and fervent handclasps. Bayard Rustin, the deputy marshal of the march, came over to Mrs. Eva Jessye, the leader of the Eva Jessye Choir.

leaders. The politeness was contagious. Washington policemen laid aside the usual brusqueness they display on crowded occasions, and one volunteered the thought that the demonstration was "wonderful." splash it when Mahalia got "However, he said, it could have on effect on the people of the nation and thus indirectly on national feeling, to whichc congress is responsive. erhood. "I have a dream." Even in Mississippi, he said, this will come to pass.

"I have a dream. Yes, one day." And King's voice went on. "My deepest apologies, Mrs. Hatchett said, "Weil, there were many high spots during the day, but I would have to say it was Martin Luther King. That man is some powerhouse." I don't think many there would have given a different answer.

Nor would I. Jessye," he said. "I'm so sorry a fcich nf about the microphone." In his 15 years as a newsman, Geoffrey Gould has covered countless speeches. He now helps to cover the House of Representatives, where speeches flow very freely. In this story he writes of his personal reaction to the speech that drew the loudest cheers at Washington's big civil rights demonstration.

By GEOFFREY GOl'LD Humphrey, along with many going strong and pretty soon all you could see was water splashing and people rocking and in the middle of it all old Phil Randolph put on his glasses and looked down at the sheaf of papers in his hands and scribbled a note about the next speaker he would introduce. "You always stay a little bit African Methodist Episcopal! M- Jessye dldn' Church of Philadelphia pressed imind- other lawmakers, was glowing He recited "My Country 'Tis in his praise of the sweeping cheese sandwiches on his of Thee almost in a sing-song The organist, who had been i rtU WnwB 4Ka r1ii rftm In many years of listening then took up the final phrase, demonstration. "I called it a blessed event before it took place and I say iu speecnes i nave noi freedom rine When somebody commented wh i traffic jam, was trying to pick on the amiability of the horde, its equal. From every hill and mound Dr. King is not really a pol again that it he told he explained serenely.

"We're in the country, he said, "Let ahead," he said. WASHINGTON This is vu milt va Ulia II Overcome." A large marshal prompted over and over. ished orator. He fumbles for a In the last couple of years, newsmen. "It was good for not mad at anybody." Washington, for the country; it was a day, seemingly, a reuuri on a sueein dv ur i tt.

freedom ring. From Stone Georgia, "let freedom ring." and for the world." When the crowd arrived, it age seemed to catch up with Mart-n Luther king Jr. by a a X'se But he a Randolph a little bit, and there reporter who has been trained he 15 3 was some feeling that he was for 15 years to keep his own g' noneeless' too old to run his people's tight ODinions out of the news. i rr P.u. From Lookout Mountain, Humphrey and Sen.

Wayne Mnnnment. which sane and did not matter. They sang in Tennessee, "let freedom ring." L. Morse another HanrDH annarntiv with the 'uI' voice without accompani- for civil rights. Then, last No-I it breaks the rule.

i "L.Lr dZt who attended the Lincoln Me-j joy 0f being there, was so mlnlt- monai raiiy, maae senate eager to move on to the Lin-i speeches later to pay tribute'rnin Memorial that it sureed erert strength of the ZLe it took And an that Negs 10; are fighting for their full to the march and its leaders. Lt nn tn CnrKtitutinn av Negro speak- "i mm were some uu.uuu negroes rights out its leaders. The leaders;" nave oeen iramea in me v.o Knr ot ho hoart Bible; Negro singers have flights up from 125the st. and ana wnues wno naa joinea ine "The time is now," he said. voices that at times threatened march on Washington.

of the bnes. In front of me, a stocky Negro man, as if to himself, breathed, "Now." King repeated the phrase, 'The time is now. Each time he said it, it was like the tolling of a bell. My man in front of me said, "yes, make it ring!" Tears came to my eyes. I am white, 37 years old, with a wife and three children.

I live in a suburb of Washing ton that has few, if any, Negroes. I have never invited a Negro to my home. I don't even know any Negroes. Perhaps that is what is wrong. Perhaps that is why the tears came to my eyes.

began to shake the years from his thin body. "Get over here at 1:30," he told Joe Overton one day. "What for? You take a siesta from one to two every day. I'll be there when you wake up," Joe said. It was my assignment to follow the line of march and report on doings among the crowd by a walkie-talkie radiophone.

On the way back down Con Sen. Philip A. Hart said the demonstration "certainly should be a vivid reminder that there are some practices in our country that in 1963 nobody should defend." Sen. William Troxmire another who attended the rally, termed it a "great demonstration of the desire and need for a strong civil rights program in this to melt down the statue of Lincoln brooding in the background. "I wish I could sing," mourned Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president, American Jewish Congress, who followed gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to the lectern.

Miss Jackson sang two gustful songs, and an elderly cleric sitting on the steps beat The march was solemn and slow. An elderly Negro couple dressed in their Sunday best, each with a placard, walked hand in hand singing, "We shall overcome." Around them, voices sang in rich harmony. Whites and Negroes linked arms on parade. "Now!" said the man in front stitution av. afterward, I fell of me, King went on, saying, "I "There is not time for a man in with a Negro man named Joe Hatchett from Danville, Va.

I asked him what he have a dream." Even in the red hills of Georgia, he said, to take naps anymore," Randolph told him. "You be here, black and white will sit down thought the best part of the A retired foreign service out the rhythm with the crowd i together at the table of broth Since November, Randolph had been, MY LIFE is complete, says Negro leader A. Philip Randolph who directed the Washington demonstration Wednesday. Now, it is different. Now, there is no nervousness.

Only determination." You could see the determination for the next four horus. There were 210,000 people who came down Constitution av. and they walked and sang and clapped their hands and they made it the biggest day in 73-year-old Phil Randolph's life. These were not coffee house bums who clutter the lobbies of a city hall, these ones in Washington Wednesday, This was a crowd which came with order, and with reason, and with towering dignity. And it was there because of old Phil Randolph, who went through years sitting in his office on 125th st.

in New York and wondering when he was going to be able to get his people to stand up in perfect time. The message, from the invocation by Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle, the benediction by Dr. Benjamin Maya of Morehouse College, from A Philip Randolph to tha Rev. Dr.

Martin Luther King, was the same: Equal rights free all, equal rights free alL Down in the crowd, the attention was extraordinary. "Passive Days Gone" New Church Era Viewed in March JFK in High Spirits Pleased President Even Feels Better has been going out of town three times a week under unbearable schedules. During the last week, he has had almost no sleep. And Wednesday, everybody said he looked 20 years younger. At the end, he got up and in his strong voice told them all to go right to their buses and go home.

Which they did. The crowd simply got up and walked off. Nobody was going to spoil Phil Randolph's day. I mi- ki By LOUIS CASSELS I for delivery at the Lincoln some dabbled their tired feet Memorial hv John Lewis, tu. a d.i,i..

By FRANK CORMIER After leaving the conference r. I with the President, march or- WASHINGTON, (AP)-Lani7Pr philin lnHnlnh Then Joe Overton came and WASHINGTON (UPI)-Re-jchairman of the student non- c.O.R.E. captain lay sound ligious leaders said today the violent coordinating commit- aslepn under a tre her han- took him by the arm and a the 0Vtc.omeuof said he and the other civil i ui. Washington huge civil rights raui- march on Washington sig- tee, one of the six Negro or- ner beside her. The wakeful nailed the beginning of a new! fnizai onf.

sponsoring me ones were quiet. and do the job he wanted front of them and they walked rally, President Kennedy says meeting "constructive, friend-them to do. Asa Philip Randolph to a car tion can be proud of this and cooperative." era of bold action by churches, Members or. congress, lor Randolph is head of the in support of the Negro Archbishop O'Boyie, who hfpn nlannorl that was taking him to the Kandoiph said tne resident White House and an appoint-' Kennedy was in was in agreement with the civil ment with President Kennedy. flgh spirits and even felt bet- rights leaders on the import's been in with presi- te py sically despite a re- tance of having his civil rights struggle for equal opportun- was to deliver the invocation, on t0 Slt on th'e steps.

As they ity. I sent that he would have departed to vote on the rail 1 tn lliltlilliinii Vain bm Ua i yw I dents before," Joe said. "He's nareuP 01 PainsT legislation passed by Congress, told them what's on his mind, following yesterday unparal- "Ti, finaiiw n' i bill, the crowd began to chant, 'The churches are finally on Kram unIess Lewis toned want the bi the move," said Rev. Jay down some passages which it was Eood natured. though.

too. So he's not going in there with his hat in his hand, don't i from time to time Moore, associate director of the archbishop considered in-j it was almost as though the on television. worry about him." this pnds! After a 75-minute meeting. llUO song sung by Joan Baez, "AH your trials, Lord, soon be over" had come true. the National Council of mwrj.

Churches' Commission on Re-j Lewij djd SQ and thfi flrch hgion and Race. 'bishop remained on the pro lie lb una 4 a Negroes Win School Fight In Chicago the career'" ine loP organizers oi "The end?" Joe Overton thf massive mfrc t0he said. "Listen. You come over coin Memorial Mr. Kennedy tonight and ask him about this a statement which national day of prayer been talking about.

That's! "The cause of 20 million rinht. evervbodv takes a dav! Negroes has been advanced Rev Mr Moore said or- gram. At the end of three hours of eamzed I rejig on in the past, It was understood the arch- speeches and singing, when has tended to take a passive at-bishop objected particularly to over 1000 had been felled by titude toward racial injus one sectlon of Lewis prepayred Kinf, or to live in th illusion that text which originally said: the heart and soul of the non-the problem could be solved nnt wait fnr th FOUNDER of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, W. E. B.

DuBoii, 95, died last night in Ghana. (AP) CHICAGO (UPI) Inte-grationists claimed a victory when the Board of Education off from work and rjravs. Say. I Dy the program conducted so Imerely by passing resolutions. President, the Justice Depart-1 crowd anew.

His' speech, an appropriately before the na i. ment, nor Congress, but we outnourine of Biblical radrnra after today this man is only about to start." (Boston Herald Tribune) American Negro Labor Council and resident of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He operates out of an office two flights up from 125th st. He has been a national spokesman for Negroes for more than 45 years, and early Wednesday, over breakfast in the Statler Hilton Hotel, he stopped shuf-flling papers for a minute and explained why a man spends his life fighting for civil rights. "There was to be a lynching one night," he was saying.

"I come from a place called Crescent City, Fla. Now, I did not even know what a lynching was. But my father went out to prevent this thing called a lynching, and my mother sat in the living room with a shotgun and stayed there until morning. This is one of the first things I ever retained. To this day, I can see my mother, sitting there with the shotgun.

You do not forget this type of thing." Tlun Joe Overton, the vice-president of Randolph's Negro Labor Council, came in to see the boss, and the papers started to be shuffled again and now Randolph was starting on the biggest day of his inose nays are june, will take matters into our own and solicitous phrase, (aught said hands and create a source of their mood as no other. agreed to remove mobile classrooms from a South Side school ground, but warned today of more demonstrations if the units are moved, as tion's shrine to the Great Emancipator, but even more significant is the contribution to mankind." Tha Prscllont coil Jackie Robinson Hails JFK Ellort power outside or any national Thousands of white i Frotes- structure Jthat could and would He oraised "the marveloui assure us of a tants, Catholics and Jews marched alongside Negroes in new militancy which has en cannot help but be impressed t0 ther SChl gulfed the Ni'Ki'o cnmir.unity Washington's massive civil B.ll 11 in ii ic i ca. rJh. 3nmnn.tr.tinn tt ABINU, CMCHUVC He begged IMemnoilO Rev. B.

Elton Cox, director WASHINGTON (AP) Jackie Robinson, first Negro Stage Leaders Weigh Boycott Of Bias Spots WASHINGTON (AP) Some with the deep fervor and the quiet dignity" of those who congregated "to demonstrate -it- i i of the Congress of Racial Equality's (CORE) Chicago. piayer in major baseball, told uieir iaun ana connaence -ill said there win hv far the ereatest ntcrfaithi serrftary he National from the cup of bit'nness ann Potest against "Sal "rimi-i Conference for Inter- hatred." as thry na? on in America' hSy ntM Justk'e- said th not rPHt day' marS oTpar- affair. lie ha.M yn, He said the reliBious leaders "'S-le applaud. te, v.An,KA,. h.

our democratic form of I B. :m.l newsmen i 1 tr other school" if the 19 units; rresiaem ivmnruj are moved. "has done a fantastic job" in government." Confident that the march added steam to his own push for broad civil rights legisla The school board voted yes advancing civil rights. movie and television personalities who participated in Wednesday's civil rights demon- bishops, bishops, priests, min- "heartened and delight- H. He extemp onze isters" rabbis and tens of thou-to see so many white He began a of I haj sands of lay men and women.

Protestants, Catholics and a dream, and a pause! Manv came from as far as Jews-leaders and laymen- someone would shout out. tion, Mr. Kennedy also was terday to move the mobile classrooms to the Wentworth, Oglesby and Guggenheim schools. All are in the same But Robinson, who campaigned for Richard M. Nixon against Mr.

Kennedy in 19(10, in ttii. ciriri pleased because the rally con Ye il ended, "Free at last. California and Oregon. participating." w. founded those who doubted i iat, thank Ood Ai area as the 73d and Lowe sitej would not commit himself as segregated theaters, night clubs ha' 80 ma7 PpPle pould Jewish leaders also were en- mighty, we are free at last." an where racial demonstrators to which party he will support thusiastic.

One Ksue arose in with religious in the march. threw themselves in front oi in 1961. With the nine other leaders, Marlon Brando said that! mot'on-charged issue with in this marcn. ne drove X0 rhar ton Heston. a earirr of, Rabbi Joachim Prinz of New York, president of the American Jewish Congress, said he olence.

Walker Unhappy Over Big March construction machinery tnis month to prevent the temporary units from being installed, Board members said stu Most Rev. Patrick A. Capitol Hill for appointments the group that flew here from in the House and Senate. Then Hollywood, New York and Mr. Kennedy said, "This na- O'Boyle.

Catholic archbishop was "deeply gratified" hy the of Washington, saw the ad-! large turnout of religious he marched down Constitu-jparis. probably would call the tion can properly be proud" He did say, however, that if the Republicans nominate Sen. Barry C.oldwater, "it would be important if necessary to crawl all over the country on hands and knees seeking votes for the tion av. and, later, he sat on a meeting. or tne marcn, especially in dents who would have at- vance text of a speech prepared groups, and the spirit of inter- AL'STIN', Tex (LTD For view of "other demonstrations, tended claes in the mobile units at 73d and Lowe would wooden folding chair in the) Brando said director Joseph hot sun on the steps of the Mankiewicz suggested the boy-Lincoln Memorial and held a.cott and added: "I certainly nair of brown-framed classes 'endorse it parts of the world." The President added that have to follow them to the other school sites.

The decision to move the Illlllliinililllililllllllllllllillllllllilllilllllllllillllllili Exclusive Barn SAN FRANCISCO (LP!) faith cooperation. mer Maj wen hdwin A. Walker "By their presence together 5air) Wednesday that civij in this march," he sald' rights demonstrations in Wash4 "Negroes and whites, Chris- inK(nn and Austin were "th tians and Jews, men and ,0, 0f thing you find in Com women from every walk of life munist capitals." anrf mvprv state in she union Walker, charged with rebelt in his hands. He said the ef-l "If every composer, everyjthose who organized and took feet was everything he always musician, every actor, every-'part in the march "deserve our mobile classrooms was one of felt it would be. lone in our profession refused appreciation" on two virtoriM for intceration California Atty.

Gen. Stan- "This is not a long-rangeo allow his contributions to be i First, for making it possible-jsts yesterday. The Board of thing," he was saying. "We displayed in any segregated and second, for keeping it or-j Education also approved an are throuch with long-ranee Dlace. it would be most out-of-court settlement of a The President made an un-'school seerecation suit filed by Robinson spoke warmly of Gov, Rockefeller of New York and said he would "be hard pressed to make a determination between President Kennedy and Gov.

Rockefeller." lie said Rockefeller Is capable and girted and that it took courage for him "to say I am in love" and to marry his present wife even though he knew it jeopardized his political career. things. This is having an im- tive." usual gesture to the 10 civil joo Ncero parents. ley Motk reported Thursday have made it tir'r tfiat thl'v 1'on. insurrection and seditiou that the name of the Cow nt rest until the promise conspiracy at Oxford, Palace, kite of the 1961 Re- freedom for every Amer-year, said the civii righ'4 publican convention, will be K.n ntien is fulfilled" marches were "pro-Kennedy registered by the state with I rvin(( ain, i'lovidence, 1 pro-Communist and pro-So the V.

S. patent office be- 'busineman who is chairman cialist." cause several eastern live- 0f the Social Action Commis-, He said he had come to Au4 stork pavilions have been 0f Reform Judaism, said tin from his home in Dallnl using the name to describe 'the historic demonstration "just to see what'a going their barns. i-nroved that the conscience of with no intention of taking rights leaders who met with Under terms of the settle mediate effect. Right now. Besides Brando and Heston, This is waking people up other participants here in-morally." jeluded Harry Bclafonte, Sam- In front of him, Mahalia my Davis Paul Newman, him last evening in the White House Cabinet Room.

Aware ment a five-membt-r team of experts will study the "emotional and psychological prob- Jackson. her hands on her Joanne Woodward and Burt! that some had not eaten since hips, the big hat on her head Lancaster. Lancaster flewlearly morning, he ordered Jems that attendance at an en-rocking from side to side, waslhere from Paris to take part sandwiches and coffee served, tirely or predominantly Negro America i singing lomething called "lin tn demonstration. io mi guesis. scnooi causes pupa.

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