Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the audience stuck it out for the full five hours, though few of the speakers seemed to make much of an impression. Coretta King, Goodell and McGovern made thoughtful if somewhat predictable speeches. The afternoon's high point came not from reasoned advocacy but from litany. Pete Seeger, Mitch Miller, and Peter, Paul and Mary led the crowd in chanting a single refrain over and over: "All we are saying is give peace a chance...
Black participation was sparse, but several blacks spoke to the rally, including Mrs. Corretta Scott King; Phil Hutchins, former officer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: George Wiley, head of the National Welfare Rights Organization; and Dick Gregory...
While Mrs. King was speaking, a group of people close to the stage raised a 300-pound cross with someone strapped to it for several minutes...
...will proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue to the edge of the blocked-off area around the White House. It will end at the Washington Monument, where marchers will hear speeches by Ozzie Davis, David Dellinger, Sens. George McGovern (D. S. D.) and Charles Goodell (R. N. Y.), Mrs. Coretta King, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology...
...King and William Sloan Coffin, Yale chaplin, were the main speakers at the Memorial Service at the Washington National Cathedral this evening...