Memories of the March

Dale Tussing remembers one moment of fear as he arrived at the March on Washington. As he and the group from Syracuse he accompanied looked down one of the capital’s main streets, they saw a throng ...

As a journalist, Walt Shepperd had known the violent side of the civil rights movement from his experience in Mississippi. Shepperd recalls the beauty of the March on Washington was how “real ...

Delores Morgan Brule recalls her family fearing for her safety at the March on Washington. “They were not very happy.” Brule, a former advisor to the Syracuse Black Catholic Ministries, saw ...