The March on Washington
This huge uprising was integrated by a lot of groups, mostly by black people. Imagine that you are a black person and are going to the march. Of course, you would be around 16 maybe 17 years old. You leave your home in Arizona (a very racist state at that time), with unknown people shouting, singing, dancing and making noise, on a bus or train. We're sure that you will have arrived at Washington DC a little sick, because thinking about conditions which black people had to live, buses wouldn't be very hygienic and comfortable. So you get there and then what do you do?
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Obviously, we would have participated because we adore people who have the courage to face police, politics and the Army's power without any type of fear. If we had taken in part it, we had fought to get our freedom and rights too. Getting there, the first thing which we would
have done it would be join other groups to make as much noise as possible. We've never heard any songs by Bob Dylan although we were listening
“Only a Pawn in Their Game”, which is about Mississippi’s judicial racist system and it was sung on the march, and we believe that, from a musical point
of view, it’s very bloody but if this worked to get Civil Right we’re not
anyone to judge it. As everybody knows, Martin Luther King gave the most known
speech, which is “I have a dream”. We don’t understand why it worked because if
you remove the form that he pronounced, so emotional and self-confident, would
it keep on being as special as we imagine?
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