MLK Jr. Movie Day

In class today we decided to watch a documentary on the famous March on Washington on August of 1963. The film began with the organization of the march by a group of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supporters. Their job was to rally together the whole entire nation to march on the capitol in the span of one day. Their rally needed to be strong but nonviolent which considering the latest marches in the south was not very likely. The Theory of Popular Constitutionalism was directly seen in this bill because a whole nation was fighting to have segregation and it worked once the bill passed. With the bill in congress the supporters began to rally into a group the size of approximentally 250,000. The organizers would fundraise day and night to raise money for chartering buses and flights to move people from the oppressed southern states to Washington, D.C. for the events and speeches. Once people had congregated onto every inch of green grass that could accommodate them, celebrities would began to play music and introduce speakers. The first speaker was John Lewis who was remembered as having the second best speech of the day but no one in the area could compete with Martin Luther King Jr. He delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech, with the whole nation watching he changed the hearts and minds of every individual in the United States that day. As the day ended, it was determined a year later that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to pass and be put into law very soon. The dream of MLK Jr. was achieved and they finally "free at last"