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10 Demands of the March on Washington
Bayard Rustin read the
following words of the 10 Demands of the March on Washington
on August 28, 1963.
The 10
Demands of the March on Washington
1. Comprehensive and effective civil
rights legislation from the present Congress — without
compromise or filibuster — to guarantee all Americans:
● Access to all public accommodations
● Decent housing
● Adequate and integrated education
● The right to vote
2. Withholding of Federal funds from all programs in
which discrimination exists.
3. Desegregation of all school districts in 1963.
4. Enforcement of the 14th Amendment — reducing
Congressional representation of states where citizens
are disfranchised.
5. A new Executive Order banning discrimination in all
housing supported by federal funds.
6. Authority for the Attorney General to institute
injunctive suits when any Constitutional right is
violated.
7. A massive federal program to train and place all
unemployed workers — Negro and white — on meaningful and
dignified jobs at decent wages.
8. A national minimum wage act that will give all
Americans a decent standard of living. (Government
surveys show that anything less than $2.00 an hour fails
to do this.)
9. A broadened Fair Labor Standards Act to include all
areas of employment which are presently excluded.
10. A federal Fair Employment Practices Act barring
discrimination by federal, state, and municipal
governments, and by employers, contractors, employment
agencies, and trade unions.
10 Demands of the March
on Washington
Bayard Rustion and the
10 Demands of the March on Washington
Bayard Rustin was
introduced by A. Phillip Randolph
on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Before Bayard Rustin read out
the words of the '10 Demands of the March on Washington' he opened
with the following introduction:
"Friends, at five o'clock
today the leaders whom you have heard will go to President Kennedy
to carry the demands of this revolution. It is now time for you to
act. I will read each demand and you will respond to it. So that
when Mr. Wilkins and Dr. King and the other eight leaders go, they
are carrying with them the demands which you have given your
approval to"
Bayard Rustin then read out the words
of the '10 Demands of the March on Washington'
The Lincoln Memorial Program of events at the March on Washington
The Lincoln Memorial Program
of events at the March on Washington is shown in the following
image.
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