Thousands of people started congregating once more at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to express their concern that Martin Luther King’s dream is currently challenged and the results of his labor are under danger, sixty years after he led 250,000 people in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The march, according to the rally’s organizers, was a reassertion of the demands stated at the Memorial in 1963 rather than a remembrance.
People with posters that read “Stop Voter Suppression,” “Immigration is not a crime,” and “Protect LGBTQ+ families” congregated in front of the memorial, including college students, a retired waitress, a retired college counselor, and members of Black sororities and fraternities, the Washington Post reported.
Beginning at Lincoln Circle NW, the marchers will travel south on 23rd Street toward West Potomac Park, where the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is located.
One of the few surviving Civil Rights activists of his generation, Andrew Young Jr., a King assistant, is scheduled to give a speech. Leader of the civil rights movement Rev. Al Sharpton, House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the first Black politician to preside over a legislative conference in the US, and civil rights activist Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC) are among the other speakers. The event also includes Janet Murgua, the CEO of UnidosUS, a Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, and Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
