The article reports on the role of churches in mobilizing people for the March on Washington in 1963. “Through passionate pulpit sermons, religious leaders-black and white, from synagogues and dioceses, from North and South-helped bring busloads to Washington.” Stassen was one of those leaders.
Stassen helped bring a group of students from Duke University to the March on Washington. Stassen recalls feeling anxious beforehand, wondering, “Would people really show up, or would it be a flop?”
His questions were answered as Stassen and the Duke students drove into Washington. “As we came in on a curve on one of the expressways into Washington… all kinds of buses came in from the other direction-just pouring in,” Stassen remembered. “It was obviously going to be a success.”
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