March on Washington of 1941

[Adisa]

Executive Order 8802 was signed on June 25, 1941 in response to a March on Washington Movement.  Following the issuance of the Executive Order, the scheduled march was suspended.  Interesting to find what really occurred.     

[Clifford Black]

Namaska Adisa,

This march, as you call it, did happen. I will wait until you have posted what happened before addressing.

B. 

[Adisa]

Namaska Dr. B,

I comprehend regarding the word "march", leads to Mars the god of war.  The source referenced this incident as a march.  I will continue to do the work on this topic.

[Adisa]

I changed the title of this topic. 

This March on Washington was suspended after the issuance of Executive Order 8802 until 1963.  Following the lead of one of the organizers of the 1941 March on Washington, Asa Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin helped organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August of 1963.  

[Clifford Black]

NOW, that is correct and as we do this together we are going to change ALL of the non-sense that seems to have the power to encapsulate and chain people to mediocrity and nothingness.

B.

[Adisa]

Exerpts from a letter dated June 5, 1941, to the Mayor of New York City, from the International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters:

"My dear Mr. Mayor:  Because the Negro people have not received their just share of jobs in national defense, and our young men have not been integrated into the armed forces of the Nation..., on a basis of equality, some of the Negro leaders have formulated plans and set up the necessary machinery in the various sections of the country for the purpose of mobilizing from ten to fifhy thousand negroes to march on Washington in the interest of securing jobs and jusitce in national defense and fair participation and equal integration into the Nation's miliary and naval forces." 

"I want to assure you, Mr. Mayor, that the Negroes of America are deeply stirred over the question of their receiving equal opportunity to share in the benefites and rresponsibilities and duties and sacrifices incident to this great and tremendous national effort to buil a defense machinery for the protection of our own country and safeguard the cause of democracy." 

[Adisa]

From Adisa to Clifford Black

Namaska, I was following your lead and not placing all the information I found regarding the information.  Am I correct in my understanding that the March was suspended until 1963? 

 

From Clifford Black to Adisa

You are correct, and is it not interesting, that the average person 'believes' that this 1963 event was the MLK March, on Washington.

B.

 

From Adisa to Clifford Black

Yes sir, that is strange that I too once believed this. 

I watched the movie Avengers this past weekend and in one scene Captain America arrived on the scene, quickly analyzed the situation and begin directing everyone where to go and what to do.  Then I noticed he had wings on his headwear.  I quickly made a link with Hermes and knowing about Hermes, I know Hermes is the same as Thoth or Tahuti.  Thoth the god of wisdom and knowledge and if I am correct where the word thought arrived from. 

[Clifford Black]

@Adisa, Thank You for placing one foot in front of the other----that is how to make things happen 'one step at a time'.

B.

[Adisa]

Hermes

[Adisa]

This statue can be located in Washington D.C.'s Union Station.  AMTRAK dedicated this statue in honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

[Clifford Black]

This entire thread should be under examination along with what is here and it is also found on the blog tab>

Although African Americans had been legally freed from bondage, elevated to the status of citizens and the men "given" full voting rights at the end of the American Civil War, many continued to face economic and political repression. A system of legal discrimination, known as Jim Crow laws, were pervasive in the American South, ensuring that Black Americans remained second-class citizens. They experienced discrimination from businesses and governments, and in some places were prevented from voting through intimidation and violence.^[12] Twenty-one states prohibited interracial marriage.^[13]

The impetus for a march on Washington developed over a long period of time, and earlier efforts to organize such a demonstration included the March on Washington Movement of the 1940s. A. Philip Randolph—the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, president of the Negro American Labor Council,^[6] and vice president of the AFL-CIO—was a key instigator in 1941. With Bayard Rustin, Randolph called for 10,000 black workers to march on Washington, in protest of discriminatory hiring by U.S. military contractors and demanding an Executive Order.^[14] Faced with a mass march scheduled for July 1, 1941, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 on June 25.^[15] The order established the Committee on Fair Employment Practice and banning discriminatory hiring in the defense industry.^[16] Randolph called off the March.^[17]

Randolph and Rustin continued to organize around the idea of a mass march on Washington. They envisioned several large marches during the 1940s, but all were called off (despite criticism from Rustin).^[18] Their Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, held at the Lincoln Memorial on May 17, 1957, featured key leaders including Adam Clayton Powell