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30 Eli Ginzberg and Alfred S. Eichner, Troublesome Presence: Democracy and Black Americans (London: Transaction Publishers, 1993) p. 201. 31 Ibid. p.203. 32 Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989) pp.162. 33 Although the March on Washington was called a march for, "Freedom and Jobs" the goals of the March were political and social and not economic. The reason the March was called a march for, "Freedom and Jobs" was the idea for the march came from A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Randolph first proposed the march in 1941 to get President Roosevelt to open up defense jobs for blacks. But the march did not gather widespread support at the time. Then in 1962 Randolph planed a march for economic justice for Blacks. The idea was supported by CORE, SNCC, and SCLC. Martin Luther King's SCLC then took over organizing the march and downgraded Randolph's economic demands. Ibid. pp.159-161. 34 Ibid. p.96. 35 William Harris, The Harder We Run: Black Workers since the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982) p.153. 36 Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989) p.199. 37 Between 1965 and 1968 there were over three hundred race riots in American cities. Woodward concludes that these riots helped bring about the end of the Civil Rights Movement by creating factions within the movement as different groups pursued different policies to rectify inju...
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