The Telstar communications satellite will relay live television pictures to Europe of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Washington, August 27.
Telstar will relay to Europe live television pictures of the "Freedom March" in Washington tomorrow.
Up to 200,000 people, both Negro and white, will take part in the march, calling for immediate Government action on civil rights. President Kennedy has said he looks forward to being at the White House to meet leaders of the demonstrators.
More than ten thousand local police and firemen, National Guardsmen, and others will be on hand to keep the peace. Organisers of the demonstrators are providing 1,500 civilian parade marshals. Troops will stand by.
*First arrivals*
Organisers, police, and the Washington civil authorities were confident today that there would be no violence. Behind these optimistic statements, however, there was a considerable feeling of apprehension.
First groups of marchers, wearing the official march button - depicting a black and white hand clasped - began to arrive today. The main body is expected to start streaming in by every type of vehicle before dawn tomorrow. One man is roller-skating from Chicago. The Weather Bureau has forecast clear skies and temperatures in the eighties.
The day's programme begins at 10 a.m. when pickets assemble at 51 churches throughout the city. Congressmen and senators have been invited to address their home State delegations. If they do not appear, a small group of marchers will seek them out on Capitol Hill.
*To memorial*
By noon, marchers will begin converging on the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, to form up State by State, for the one-mile parade along Constitution Avenue to the Lincoln Memorial. It was President Lincoln who freed the slaves 100 years ago.
Marian Anderson, the contralto, will open the programme at the Lincoln Memorial by leading the audience in singing the national anthem. It will be followed by speeches from some of the march leaders, including Mr A. Philip Randolph, 74-year-old elder statesman of the civil rights movement; Dr Martin Luther King, leader of the Negro demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama; and Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish leaders. Another speaker will be Mrs Medgar Evers, wife of the Negro leader shot dead in Mississippi.
Many actors and entertainers have said they will join in. America's "Nazi" leader, George Lincoln Rockwell, has been denied a permit to demonstrate tomorrow, but has said he will speak anyway.
The March on Washington article was illustrated with a cartoon by Bill Papas, the Guardian's chief political cartoonist of the 1960s. Reported by guardian.co.uk 12 hours ago.
Washington, August 27.
Telstar will relay to Europe live television pictures of the "Freedom March" in Washington tomorrow.
Up to 200,000 people, both Negro and white, will take part in the march, calling for immediate Government action on civil rights. President Kennedy has said he looks forward to being at the White House to meet leaders of the demonstrators.
More than ten thousand local police and firemen, National Guardsmen, and others will be on hand to keep the peace. Organisers of the demonstrators are providing 1,500 civilian parade marshals. Troops will stand by.
*First arrivals*
Organisers, police, and the Washington civil authorities were confident today that there would be no violence. Behind these optimistic statements, however, there was a considerable feeling of apprehension.
First groups of marchers, wearing the official march button - depicting a black and white hand clasped - began to arrive today. The main body is expected to start streaming in by every type of vehicle before dawn tomorrow. One man is roller-skating from Chicago. The Weather Bureau has forecast clear skies and temperatures in the eighties.
The day's programme begins at 10 a.m. when pickets assemble at 51 churches throughout the city. Congressmen and senators have been invited to address their home State delegations. If they do not appear, a small group of marchers will seek them out on Capitol Hill.
*To memorial*
By noon, marchers will begin converging on the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, to form up State by State, for the one-mile parade along Constitution Avenue to the Lincoln Memorial. It was President Lincoln who freed the slaves 100 years ago.
Marian Anderson, the contralto, will open the programme at the Lincoln Memorial by leading the audience in singing the national anthem. It will be followed by speeches from some of the march leaders, including Mr A. Philip Randolph, 74-year-old elder statesman of the civil rights movement; Dr Martin Luther King, leader of the Negro demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama; and Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish leaders. Another speaker will be Mrs Medgar Evers, wife of the Negro leader shot dead in Mississippi.
Many actors and entertainers have said they will join in. America's "Nazi" leader, George Lincoln Rockwell, has been denied a permit to demonstrate tomorrow, but has said he will speak anyway.
The March on Washington article was illustrated with a cartoon by Bill Papas, the Guardian's chief political cartoonist of the 1960s. Reported by guardian.co.uk 12 hours ago.