“So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.”
At Lincoln’s Memorial to cash a check.
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 blacks and whites from all over the United States gathered for a gigantic civil rights demonstration in the nation’s capital. It was the largest demonstration in the history of Washington, D.C. Young and old, black and white, Jew and Gentile marched shoulder to shoulder from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. The purpose was to demand the passage of a civil rights bill and immediate implementation of the basic guarantees of the Declaration of Independence and the Thirteenth Amendment.
“The eight days between May 2 and May 10, 1963, when thousands of school children in Birmingham, Ala., defied the fire hoses and police dogs of Eugene “Bull” Connor, marked a turning point in the civil rights movement. True, there had been battles before and other battles – and tragedies – were to come. But, just as the 1936 sit-down strike by auto workers in Flint, Mich., set the stage for the massive organizing campaigns of the CIO, Birmingham helped set the stage for the civil rights legislation of the administrations of Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.”
https://www.upi.com/Archives/Audio/Events-of-1963/March-on-Washington/
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/march-on-washington-anniversary-60
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