Official Program for the March on Washington
The printed order of events at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 28 August 1963. It lists the speakers and those who led the prayers, with the offices they held.
The programme has eighteen items. The invocation is assigned to Patrick O’Boyle, Catholic archbishop of Washington; remarks to Eugene Carson Blake, stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church and vice chairman of the Commission on Race Relations of the National Council of Churches; a prayer to Rabbi Uri Miller of the Synagogue Council of America; remarks to Matthew Ahmann of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice and to Rabbi Joachim Prinz of the American Jewish Congress; and the benediction to Benjamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse College. Item 16 is “Remarks” by Martin Luther King Jr as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: the speech now known by its refrain, “I have a dream”.
It is a programme of who was to take part, and not a report of what was said. See the Churches and the Civil Rights Movement.
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- 16 April 1963, firm date