At March on Washington’s 60th anniversary, leaders seek energy of original movement for civil rights

Sixty years ago, Andrew Young and his staff had just emerged from an exhausting campaign against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Martin Luther King, Jr. acknowledges the crowd outside the Lincoln Memorial for his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Martin Luther King Jr., acknowledges the crowd gathered for the Civil Rights March at Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Aug. 28, 1993. FILE - People carry signs with George Floyd's portrait as they march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington on Aug. 28, 2020. “If America is able to tell the story today, that Black unemployment has reached record lows, but they’re not saying that Black Americans are still disproportionately earning just minimum wage or that they’re not earning as much as their white counterparts, with the same levels of education and experience, they’re only telling half the story,” said Jones Austin who, with the National Action Network and the Drum Major Institute, is lobbying the federal government to change how economic deprivation and need are measured in the U.S. ___ Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton was a 26-year-old Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee worker in Mississippi in 1963 when she became part of the staff that organized the March on Washington.