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Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
This year marked 60 years since the March on Washington, and there is a bipartisan acceptance of the event as a monumental step forward for Black Americans for the struggle for civil rights. While Martin Luther King’s iconic speech for many is understood as a call for collective understanding to get beyond racial differences and come together as one united nation, that wasn’t the ultimate goal of the march. It's organizers had a Socialist Democratic vision of massive economic redistribution of wealth. The March on Washington for jobs and freedom became a victory for the Civil Rights movement and its leaders, but was it truly a success?
Read Paul's piece in Jacobin Magazine here: https://jacobin.com/2023/08/march-on-washington-anniversary-civil-rights-economic-inequality
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