Framing the March

August 22, 2003

To utter the phrase "March on Washington" is to conjure the image of Martin Luther King on the stage in front of the Lincoln Memorial. But there was much more to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom than King's famous oratory that day. On the 40th Anniversary of the demonstration, Bob talks to Lucy Barber - author of Marching on Washington: the Forging of an American Tradition - about the media's packaging of the march.


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