On August 28, 1963, the Washington, DC, march was held at the Lincoln Memorial. (Benoit, 2014). The purpose of the march was to raise awareness of problems affecting black people's and other Americans' rights and employment. The civil rights activist and well-known speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech mentioning the dream he had the day after the march. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the National Urban League, the United Auto Workers, and the National Council of Churches were among the labor unions, civil rights organizations, and religious institutions that planned the march.
The 1963 march had plenty of lessons to learn from. The main lessons that I learned from the march on Lincoln Memorial were that I should always stand for what’s right no matter what the cost. Dr. Martin Luther King envisioned what black Africans were facing in the United States of America; he decided to stand up for them and fight for their rights (Benoit, 2014). He defended their rights even if it meant taking him to jail and made sure that nothing made him change his stand. In certain times it may be quite difficult to stand for what’s right due to the aftermath of the choice we’ve made, but in the long run, we are defined by our choices.
Racism was dominant
Impunity was widespread in the US in the 1960’s. Racial bigotry had dominated the US as the black Americans were turned down for job positions that they could perfectly fit in. The peak of impunity made it difficult for the black Americans to get decent housing. This was the primary reason that more than 200,000 whites and blacks convened a peaceful gathering to demand greater equality (Benoit, 2014). The working conditions were very wanting, and the laborers that were employed joined the march to advocate for better working conditions and an increment in the remuneration.
Changes in the Civil Right Act.
Owing to the Washington Dc march, effective and comprehensive civil rights legislations were put in place. After Dr. Martin Luther King’s Speech, both white and black Americans who had joined the march were made aware of the demand of the march (Benoit, 2014). The key event organizers; Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, read the demands to the people (Benoit, 2014). The changes in the civil rights act finally came through though at a very high cost; the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. John’s predecessor President Lyndon B. John used the murder as a stepping stone towards building support for the law.
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was such a critical moment in the history series of the United States of America. According to Dallas; The Apparently official, President John F. Kennedy’s murder was one of the crimes in human history that were thoroughly looked into (Champion, and Angelyn, 2016). It may be entirely incompatible to compare President John’s murder to the death of Julius Caesar. The main difference in the two investigations is the strictness of the technological tools, and the depth of scrutiny applied in President John’s murder investigation.
The investigation into President John F. Kennedy’s (JFK) death led to the innovation and invention of new investigative weapons. The inventions that took place afterward made the unending quest into JFK’s assassination. President JFK’s was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The assassination was carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald when the president was in a motorcade through downtown (Champion, and Angelyn, 2016). Later on that same year, Lee Harvey Oswald was himself assassinated while on live television in the process of being transported in police custody (Champion, and Angelyn, 2016). His assassination was undertaken by Jack Ruby in retaliation to his earlier jester towards the President JFK.
President JFK’s assassination was found to be kind of hard to be believed by American citizens. This was because they felt the president’s death was a conspiracy by fellow presidential aspirants to uproot him from power. The latter made it quite possible for Americans to accept the fact that JFK had been slain owing to the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was a one-time defector of the Soviet Union. The death of President JFK remains an unhealed wound for Americans; mention of Dallas brings forth dark memories of a downtown motorcade, a mad rush to Parkland Hospital, administration of an oath of office to the then deputy president Lyndon Johnson aboard Air Force One, blood stained Jacqueline Kennedy’s clothes. The black and white cast of these slow-motion memories reminds Americans of their sad past.
The high emotional connection that the president shared with his citizens is evident in the rapid increment in the number of people visiting the Arlington National Cemetery, The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (Champion, and Angelyn, 2016). Apart from that, many articles have been written in his honor including The making of the President 1964 by Theodore H. White. The article by Theodore describes the assassination of President JFK as a clap of alarm as sharp and startling as Pearl Harbor and an episode to be remembered. The most annoying part of President JFK’s death was that even after his death, Americans could still sit in their living rooms and through their television sets, they could still see President JFK joking with Texans hours earlier (Champion, and Angelyn, 2016).
Works Cited
Benoit, Peter. The Assassination of John F. Kennedy. , 2014. Print.
Champion, Terrel, and Angelyn L. Mitchell. Remembering Jobs and Not Just Freedom: the Intersectionality of Race and Class & the Rhetorical Ecology of the 1963 March on Washington. , 2016. Internet resource.
