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REFORMERS > civil-rights activist > Bayard Ruskin
It wasn't the...
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It wasn't the Harry Belafontes and the greats from Hollywood that made the march. What made the march was that black people voted that day with their feet.
Source: On the 1963 March on Washington, in Voices of Freedom, by Henry Hampton, 1990.
-- Bayard Ruskin, (Mar 17 c. 1910-1987), US civil-rights activist; He spent two years in jail as a conscientious objector during WW II; helped plan the 1941 March on Washington Movement.