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Youth March for Integrated Schools
In August 1958, A. Philip Randolph proposed a Youth March for Integrated Schools to take place on October 25. Bayard Rustin chiefly organized the event with the help of his protégés Rachelle Horowitz and Tom Kahn. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Roy Wilkins served as honorary chairmen. On September 20, King was stabbed by a woman at a Harlem department store while autographing copies of his book, Stride Towards Freedom. On the day of the march, a crowd of 10,000 massed at the Lincoln Memorial. Coretta Scott King delivered her husband's speech. A second youth march on April 18, 1959, drew a crowd of 40,000. |