Fuller Professor Glen Stassen Remembers March on Washington

Glen Stassen, the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Pasadena’s Fuller Theological Seminary, was featured in USA Today’s recent article, “Churches of all kinds raised funds, encouraged crowds.”

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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