CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: MARCH ON WASHINGTON, PART 2 OF 2 ("I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH) (TV)
Summary
Continues from T77:0163. Continues with coverage of the speech given by Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
A. Philip Randolph (vice president of the AFL/CIO) introduces gospel singer Mahalia Jackson who sings a hymn and "How I Got Over."
Next, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, addresses the crowd. (There is loss of video for two minutes on this copy during his speech). A. Phillip Randolph pays tribute to those who organized the march.
Next (at 0:23:43), Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech. Bayard Rustin, deputy director of the National March Committee, lists the marchers' demands. Randolph reads their pledge and the benediction is given by Dr. Benjamin E. Mays (pesident, Morehouse College).
CBS correspondent Roger Mudd reviews the marchers' pledges and reports that the ten march leaders will meet with President John F. Kennedy at 5:00 p.m.
Coverage concludes to the strains of "We Shall Overcome."
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: August 28, 1963
- RUNNING TIME: 1:00:00
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T77:0167
- GENRE: N/A
- SUBJECT HEADING: Blacks - Politics and suffrage; March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington D.C., 1963; U S - Civil rights; NAACP; African-American Collection - News/Talk
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Leslie Midgley … Executive Producer
- William B. Crawford … Producer
- Roger Mudd … Reporter
- Roy Wilkins … Speaker
- A. Philip Randolph … Speaker
- Mahalia Jackson … Singer
- Martin Luther King Jr. … Speaker
- Joachim Prinz … Speaker
- Bayard Rustin … Speaker
- Benjamin E. Mays … Speaker
- John F. Kennedy