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It may contain original research or unverifiable claims.It may require general cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.The Million Man March was a African American march convened by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in Washington, DC on October 16, 1995.Minister Benjamin Chavis Muhammad was the National Director of the Million Man March.The event included efforts to register African Americans to vote in US Elections and increase black involvement in volunteerism and community activism.Speakers also offered a strong criticism of the conservative offensive of Republicans after the 1994 congressional elections (most notably the Contract with America), characterized as an attack on programs like welfare, Medicaid, housing programs, student aid programs and education programs.Following the 1995 Million Man March, The National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) reported a flood of 13,000 applications to adopt black children.They provided space and additional resources for March organizers at its Washington, D.Crowd size controversy
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2.United States Park Police officially estimated the crowd size at 400,000.After the Million Man March, the Park Police decided to discontinue providing official crowd estimates.Three days after the march, Dr.Baz and a team of ten research associates and graduate students at the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University released an estimate of 870,000 people with a margin of error of about 25 percent.This revision was made when the Park Service provided original 35mm negatives; the first count was made with scanned printed photographs.See also
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the historical precedent for the Million Man March, in 1963
Millions More Movement, launched by a broad coalition of Black leaders to mark the commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the historic Million Man March.Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
List of protest marches on Washington, DC
Get on the Bus, a 1996 Spike Lee movie related to the march.Other movements that based their name on the Million Man March
Million Mom March, gun violence awareness group.Million Marijuana March, an annual worldwide rally to promote cannabis awareness and drug war reform.Million Worker March, response to jobs lost under the George W.Protest marches in Washington, D.Martin Luther King's Washington march of more
than 30 years ago on Aug.The direct call to men was taken as if it were a
call to arms.Louis Farrakhan's in black America's historic
struggle to bridge our national family's racial divide.National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People set forth in 1908 had been completed.America than black men, which is
the basis of the black matriarchal tradition.Jesse Jackson, the most
important black leader in America in the lineage of Dr.King, will march with Farrakhan, knowing Farrakhan is
filling a void that he cannot.Friday, when I called him to talk about
it.It has been in the cards
for a long time.England and Germany, Scotland or
Scandinavia.King's integration route was direct.There was forced school busing to
realize Dr.King's dream of black and white children
walking hand in hand.Germany, the Jews at the bottom,
which today is where black Americans are in America.These are ladders scaled through merit.Richard Herrnstein, I got a chilling sense of what
black leadership in America is up against.President Reagan's reference to
the evil empire of the USSR occurs to me.It equates with darkness,
as opposed to light.The road to communism, after
all, was paved with good intentions.So too has been the
paternalism of white America to black.Jesse Jackson has tried
and has failed.Where is this million man march heading?Cold War restructuring of the
political coalitions that took root with the New Deal.There it will join with the Gingrich revolutionaries to
rebuild entrepreneurial capitalism.Newt Gingriches, because he is basically talking
their talk.It's the same message they are trying to
sell, but the young aren't listening to the church.Farrakhan's overture, insisting there first be apology
for his past statements of racism and bigotry.Million Man March, and end his verbal abuse of the Jewish
community.Jewish leaders in the Rose Garden, we might also
imagine Farrakhan in a similar embrace.Instead, the march today will generate a new set of black
political leaders.Kemp wing of the Republican party, which
lately has seemed to desperately need some new blood.Congressional Black Caucus, has in the past
year dropped hints of switching parties.Powell enthusiast who privately seems to be urging a
Powell candidacy, knowing it would take place in the GOP.New Deal and its social
programs.UP YOU MIGHTY NATION, YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH WHAT YOU WILL.Why a Million Man March?An Arabic prayer pierced the air.If nothing else, we have come together as a people.GAULT: Where are you from?What are you doing here today?What can a million men do when you go home?Gingrich forces won by 19,000 votes.Well, my friends, we've got the power.Kennedy beat Nixon by 112,000 votes.Well, I didn't see your face.Tell them, I have a light and I'm going to let my light shine.Tell them I'm dreaming now, my dream is bigger than my ghetto.Tell them, I'm dreaming again, it's bigger than my jail cell.Tell them, I saw a number like John that no man can number.We have to go to the root of the problem.America and in the world.Bible that did not have a defect in its character.Become a member of your local PBS station.American men met on the Mall in Washington, D.Gault is joined by four men who where there.RealAudio version of this NewsHour segment is available.The NewsHour looks at the politics and economics of race tensions in the U.Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Deval Patrick, and Kansas City minister, Rev.An array of speakers addressed a crowd of thousands, but the longest speech was made by the man who called the march a year ago, Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan.He spoke about what he thought the march accomplished.Americans were murdered in 1999, and this was 7 percent lower than in 1994.Clinton wants to take credit for it.Million Man March should take credit for that decrease in the murder rate among our people.LOUIS FARRAKHAN: And as we leave this place, let us be resolved to go home to work out this atonement and make our communities a decent, whole, and safe place to live.GAULT: Now the impact of the Million Man March from four who were there: Michael Eric Dyson, a Professor of Communications at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ron Walters, a Professor of African American Studies and Government at the University of Maryland; Armstrong Williams is a syndicated talk show host and former assistant to Clarence Thomas at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and Alvertis Simmons, a community activist from Denver, who coordinated the participation of thousands of Denver area blacks in last year's march.Simmons, as I said, you organized and coordinated that march.Has anything come of it one year later in your community?ALVERTIS SIMMONS, Community Activist: (Denver, Colorado) Yes, it has, Ms.In our community, we feel that we, we helped with the reduction of crime in Northeast Denver, which is predominantly black.Million Man March of last year.So we are very pleased by what we've done here in Denver.So one of the great, I think, effects of that march has been the renewed sense of dignity.Individual acts and individual gestures from black men have been bound together.What this march did most of all was to signify to America that reject vicious stereotypes of black masculinity, and that we embrace the common purpose of black men to look for liberation, and everywhere we can find it, but especially in our own communities and at the depth of our own behavior.And a lot of kids today, especially the younger generation, are being reared without a strong father in the home and sometime without a mother, and the thing is that people are looking for hope.They're looking to find faith in this country again.GAULT: Did you find that the march has affected that in the year hence?Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, you'd be stupid not to admit the tremendous job that they've done, gone into the community finding young men who have been left for dead and cleaning them up and giving them the dignity and giving them opportunities, and so what the march has done, it has given the hope, and it has helped them get back in touch with their godliness, because you can have all the government programs in the world but until you get back to your spiritual nature, that which is within you, and manifest that, then we're all lost.I've also talked to young men who never felt that it was important to take their kids to church on Sunday but after the Million Man March and after Minister Farrakhan's godly message, they decided they needed to go back to church, and so this was all good, and the Good Book tells us when we find good, we should praise it.GAULT: Ron Walter, you've been studying the impact of the Million Man March scientifically for the past year.And then, of course, less influential I think were the local manifestations around the country, places like Buffalo, where organizations, where local organizing committees took on local challengers, registered people to vote, a couple of thousand people to vote, dealt with prison projects, tried to do parenting, so many of the places where these organizations have been active have added a new layer of political activism.GAULT: What do you mean by that?You look at the fact that a few weeks ago there was a meeting in St.But at some point we have to realize that there are things that we do that does not help those communities, and the fact that racism is not the answer and the solution to all our problems, and also the one thing that they won't admit is what this march indicates, the fact that Minister Farrakhan could rise to power to assemble such distinguished men on the mall is that leadership has failed.Farrakhan, could have pulled this together, and so it's more of an indictment of the Civil Rights movement than it is of what Mr.WALTERS: When you have a million and two people showing up anywhere, no one person pulls it together.Sentencing Commission, itself, says that one of the results of the manipulation of their sentencing was responsible.DYSON: Yes, I think that Mr.The CIA has denied it so there's still no proof on it.SIMMONS: Well, I don't agree with the Reverend Jackson on that point.I, I saw six to seven, eight thousand delegates there and voting and ratifying that national black agenda.American people throughout the United States.Minister Farrakhan say, uh, that the Million Man March was responsible for the decrease in crime, something Mr.WALTERS: There are no definitive studies that can prove one way or the other, although I think we have reason to suspect that a force, a moral force like the Million Man March might have had some impact on a whole range of indicators that have gone by.Youth murders in the black community has gone down.Dyson, how does Minister Farrakhan's behavior in the wake of the march affect all of this?DYSON: Well, I think there's no question that in the spirit of the Million Man March what we were encouraged to do was to be responsible.The flip side of that responsibility for the masses of black men is for our leadership to be accountable.And unfortunately, in the wake of the tremendous resurgence of good feeling and good will among black men, Minister Farrakhan has certainly squandered the political potential and moral responsibility that attended his leadership of the Million Man March.Going to Nigeria and to tell those people that Moses was a dictator and, therefore, they'd have to put up for three more years with Gen.Abacha's dictatorship is really a trumping of the fundamental moral principles of the Million Man March.Simmons on that because we're about out of time.SIMMONS: Well, I think Minister Farrakhan, his, his positions are a little indifferent, I believe, but I believe that Mr.We have to leave it there.Support the kind of journalism done by the NewsHour...AP
With the Washington Monument in the background, participants gather on the Mall in Washington on Monday, Oct.AP
With the Washington Monument in the background, members of the Nation of Islam march in Washington Monday, Oct 16, 1995, toward the Captitol.AP
A participant in the Million Man March from Detroit awaits the start of proceedings, Monday, Oct 16, 1995 in Washington.AP
Participants in the Million Man March take part in a chant during the rally on the Washington Mall October 16.Amcha, from New York, hold signs comparing Louis Farrakhan with David Duke, the former Ku Kux Klan leader on October 15, 1995, one day before Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March in Washington."Long live the spirit of the Million Man March", Chavis said at one point, and the throng repeated the words back to him.Photo was taken through bullet proof glass.Clinton called on white and black Americans to end racism that is tearing the heart of America.Million Man March, Monday, October 16, 1995 on Capitol Hill.Million Man March on Monday.Jackson, an accounting student at Harold Washington College in Chicago, said he wanted to go to be a part of a group of black men who want to "dispel the myth that all black men are part of a violent, evil race", and show that "there is a respectful part of our race who simply want...Organizers are hoping that the march will be the biggest ever.The record is held by a Vietnam War moratorium rally in 1969 that drew 600,000 by a U.Officials did not know how many men to expect, but rally organizers predicited between 5000,000 and 1 million.Some 800 buses carrying 38,400 men were scheduled to leave from New York City at midnight Sunday.
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