Abstract
October 16, 1995 will be recorded as one of the most important days in the political history of African Americans in the United States. This day witnessed the largest mass political demonstration in the history of this nation—the assemblage of more than 1.2 million African-American men in Washington, D.C. under the banner of the Million Man March. Both the size and the overt political objectives of the march set it firmly apart from the pallid, feeble demonstrations in Washington led by the NAACP in the 1980s; in its size and character, the march echoed the focus on power and system level change that emerged as the hallmark of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the national mobilization against the war in Vietnam.
Recommended Citation
Nelson, William E. Jr.
(1997)
"Black Church Politics and the Million Man March,"
Trotter Review: Vol. 10:
Iss.
2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/trotter_review/vol10/iss2/4
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