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The MOWM was the model for the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous âI Have a Dream Speech,â and the militant Black-only politics of the MOWM foreshadowed the Black Power movement of the late 1960s.
First, the march would mean a vast grassroots effort mobilizing ordinary people, not political elites. Too, Randolph proposed the march as an independent action organized and led by black people themselves. Throughout the next few months, March on Washington Committee chapters formed to build for the march which was scheduled for July 1, 1941. It was estimated that the march would draw over 100,000 people to the capitol.