New York City

In 1962, Rustin and Randolph, now older men, meet in New York to discuss a new march. This march will be to advance the interests of Black workers. Black workers have been disproportionately hurt by the mechanization of their jobs, and Rustin and Randolph believe it is the government’s job to help these workers fight discrimination and to help train them for new jobs. They plan the march for 1963 because it will be the 100-year anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Emancipation Proclamation

The plan is for the march to be held in 1963 because it will be the one-hundred year anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. As the book describes, Lincoln did not want, at first, to claim slavery as a major cause of the Civil War as he was cautious of turning away border states that allowed for slavery. With the Emancipation Proclamation, however, he frees...