The 1963 March on Washington featured just one prominent ... second-class economic citizens and denied jobs,” declared Walter Reuther, the legendary president of the United Auto Workers.

Philip Randolph, UAW president Walter Reuther, NAACP’s Roy Wilkins and March organizer Whitney Young. The Great March on Washington, which the label rush-released in October 1963, also boasts ...

The March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs was meant ... a minister and former pastor to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Walter Reuther, a union organizer and presidential adviser.

Its president, Walter Reuther, marched side-by-side with King in Detroit months earlier. And the UAW helped finance the March on Washington. Reuther was among the featured speakers on the steps of ...

There was a March in Washington on Saturday ... and Bayard Rustin (a gay pacifist organizer par excellence!), Walter Reuther, head of the United Auto Workers, was another one of the main organizers.

Reuther committed the union financially to King's 1963 march in ... with him in Washington, D.C. “Before the most famous speech of the century, ‘I have a dream,’ Walter Reuther gave ...

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George Romney, the former governor of Michigan, called Walter Reuther “the most ... local 86. In March 1936 Reuther was selected to represent Local 86 at the UAW’s second annual convention.

WASHINGTON — Decades ago, Walter Reuther, the storied head of the United Auto Workers union, was taken on a tour of an automated factory by a Ford Motor Co. executive. Somewhat gleefully ...

Events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington are wrapping up in the District Wednesday, with President Barack Obama speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

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