The next display of protest being planned by Warren Ballentine, www.thetruthfighter.blogspot.com, is a March on Washington. The 2007 March on Washington is being planned and will take place on November 16, 2007. If you want to participate in the march and want to ride a bus with other protestors, call 877-626-4651. Remember that each generation must take a stance. Our children need to experience democracy at work. You can be a part of history. You can help to make a change.

 Lest We Forget, "those who ignore the past are bound to repeat it."

March on Washington, 1941

In 1941 Asa Philip Randolph organized approximately 100,000 African Americans and other supports to march on Washington in protest of racial discrimination and as a means for ensure the organizations of unions especially for the Pullman Porters. His goal was to call for jobs and equal participation in national defense. President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried on numerous occasions to deter the rally. Randolph and is supporters decided to cancel the march when President Roosevelt issued the executive order which barred discrimination in national defense and established the Fair Employment Act of 1941. Pressured by A. Philip Randolph and other march organizers, Roosevelt issued the first order which promoted equal opportunity and prohibited employment discrimination in the United States. However, in 1963, A. Philip Randolph would have his day. These changes had a positive empact on all minorities, not just African Americans.

 March on Washington 1963

This too, spearheaded by Asa Philip Randolph the historical March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. was keynote speaker took place in 1963. Violence that took place in Birmingham Alabama that year inspired the protest. Demonstrators from over 100 cities in the United States gathered in protest for civil rights and a final end to blatant racial discrimination and violence against Blacks. This too gained results. President Kennedy promised the civil rights bill protecting African Americans from discrimination at the polls, in educational institutions, and in public places. It brought an end to Jim Crow as well as laws enforcing segregation. The 1963 March on Washington is evidence that an act of massive and organized protest bring about positive change. As did the strategies planned to march on Washington in 1941, the 1963 march helped to improve the quality of life for all minorities.

 March on Washington, 1995

The March on Washington of 1995, named, The Million-Man March was convened by Nation of Islam’s leader Minister Louis Farrakhan. Its purpose was to increase the number of registered African American voters and to increase African American participation in community activism in the form of increased volunteerism by African American men. The march was a vehicle for encouraging the involvement of Black men in their families, in schools, in churches, and in social service arenas. Like the previous Marches on Washington, it was not necessarily planned to protest or put on pressure for government action. Whether or not the march was beneficial is relative to each family, each school, each church, and each agency whose men participated.