Jobs for everyone! Raise the minimum wage! More job training!
-- Tom Kahn (Chapter 2: "A March for Jobs -- and Freedom" paragraph NA)

Importance: Tom Kahn types these words as he, Hill, and Randolph plan for the 1963 march in Washington. They all believe that the government has a role in improving conditions for Black workers. These workers have been increasingly pushed out of jobs due to the mechanization of tasks that once belonged to no skill or low skill workers. Better jobs are, in part, what the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is fighting for.

That was an unmistakable threat. Randolph didn’t identify who the “other leaders” were, but everyone understood that he was referring to Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam minister who often ridiculed civil rights leaders for using nonviolence and pursuing integration.
-- Narrator (Chapter 3: "Kennedy Resists" paragraph NA)

Importance: These words describe the talk The Big Six have with President Kennedy. The men explain how people have already taken to the streets and that they...