Read the excerpt from "My First March.”"Hey, Mama?” I asked. "How can all these buses be going to the same place we’re going? I’ve never seen a building that could hold this many people.”"Well, we’re not going to a building,” Mama said. "We’re going to a march today. That means we’ll be walking through the streets all over our nation’s capital.”Now read the excerpt from "2000 Buses.”Two thousand buses, Twenty-one chartered trains, Ten special airlines, More cars than one could nameA mass meeting they called it,The March for Jobs and FreedomEqual access, Equal justice,For all, and not just some
Read the excerpt from "My First March.”I had never seen so many buses in my life! Whether I looked through the front windshield or the window by my seat, an ocean of buses was all I could see. Yellow school buses, silver Greyhounds, and buses in all kinds of colors that didn’t have any writing on them. Mama said they were all going to the same place as us, which didn’t seem possible. What kind of place could hold all those people?
Read the excerpt from "My First March.”"Exactly!” Mama said. "By marching, we’ll be letting the government know that we want those unfair laws to be changed. And while we march we’re going to chant, and after we chant, we’ll sing some songs. One way or another, we’re going to make sure the government hears our message.”
Read the excerpt from President Kennedy's Report to the American People.This afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen was required on the University of Alabama to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Alabama.
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