The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
FILE - Rev. William Barber II, with the"Poor People's Campaign," speaks to the group after they prayed inside of the Capitol Rotunda in protest of the GOP tax overhaul, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Barber, now director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, admires King immensely yet is critical of those who water down the March on Washington to one man, one speech.
“The issues are multiracial. It’s too simplistic now to say, “Black church/white church,'” said the Rev. William Barber, who in 2018 became co-chair of a national anti-poverty initiative called. It took its name from a movement launched by King and other SCLC leaders in 1968 shortly before King’s assassination.
“There are Jews, Quakers, some predominantly white congregations that are pro-civil rights and pro-LGBT community — that care about immigrants and women's rights and voting rights,” he said. “Any efforts today that are not engaging all these issues on an every day basis is not truly moving in the spirit of the March on Washington.”
Others have a more conservative, individualistic outlook, Franklin said. “They are a little mushy on the activism and the risk-taking.”
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