The goal was to keep people off the streets and make room for vehicles as they started to become a normalized way of transportation. As silly as that sounds, jaywalking laws were created by the auto industry in the 1930s as vehicle ownership started to increase. Martin Luther King Jr.Posted Octoin Blog The Freedom to Walk Act PassesĪ HUGE congratulations is in order as California’s Governor Newsom signed legislation called the Freedom to Walk Act into law!Ĭalifornia joins the national trend to legalize walking. It is estimated that over $100,000 was raised for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the civil rights organization for which Dr. The response by the audience was ecstatic. He advised that African Americans needed to stand up and fight for equality and freedom while standing firm to the principle of non-violence and to “make real the promises of democracy” by supporting the civil rights bill that President Kennedy had put before congress.
In it, he proclaimed that the status quo was unacceptable.
King gave an early version of his “I Have a Dream” speech two months later he delivered it at the historic March on Washington. Yet the rally is remembered primarily because it was here that Dr. Swainson, Congressman Charles Diggs, and Rev. Inside, public officials, African American business and civic leaders, and dignitaries including John B. Thousands of demonstrators who could not find a seat spilled onto the lawns and malls outside, and listened to the programming through loudspeakers. An hour and a half after it began, it ended at Cobo Hall, where 25,000 people, an estimated 95% of them African American, filled the building to capacity. It followed Woodward Avenue to Jefferson Avenue, then headed west through the Civic Center. The route of the march started at a twenty-one-block staging area near Adelaide Street. Here’s more background from Wayne State’s Walter P. During the critical era of the 1950s and '60s, King, who led the 250,000-strong March on Washington in 1963, and Malcolm X were colossal 20th century figures, representing two different tracks: mass non-violent protest and getting favorable outcomes "by any means necessary." (AP Photo/File) (1963 AP)
Martin Luther King joins Detroit's Freedom March. FILE - In this June 23, 1963, file photo, theRev.
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