“[T]he demonstration bore the title ‘March for Jobs and Freedom.’ We realized even then that true freedom and racial equality cannot be achieved within the context of a stagnant economy, unable to provide blacks with permanent, good-paying jobs.”
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To the editor of the Afro-American, Sept. 12, 1978, after reading an article about the 1963 march.
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