Dylan & Baez - 1963 March on Washington - Rare Footage

[MineralMan]

Run time: 09:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWg_JlN0Mw   Posted on YouTube: April 25, 2011 By YouTube Member: weesinator35 Views on YouTube: 54923   Posted on DU: November 19, 2011 By DU Member: MineralMan Views on DU: 1136

 
Everything old is new again...

[MineralMan]

1. A few more words on this video:

I saw this film in 1963, when I was a high school senior. It and other Dylan songs and this march were very powerful influences on me. I had grown up in a small, rural California town, and knew nothing about the civil rights movement or much else, for that matter. Seeing this on the CBS evening news in 1963 was one of the initial things that started me learning about such things. Two years later, I had dropped out of college, where I was an engineering major, which was feeling irrelevant to me, and I drove an old Chrysler I bought for $100 to Selma, Alabama to participate in Dr. King's march. My parents were dumbfounded. They still are.

[fasttense]

2. Wow, look at that crowd.

The crowd looked nervous and jumpy.

I guess they were expecting to be attacked.

[MineralMan]

3. It was a nervous and jumpy time, especially

for black people. But people come to Occupy DC, and have for many decades. It's nothing new.

[xiamiam]

4. tears as i watched and remembered those times

without this struggle obama would never have been in the white house. I grew up during this time and the memories still cut like a knife. Our current struggle is equally legitimate and the current brutality needs to be juxtaposed to those times. I loathe what we have become. I loathe war for profit and sweeping poor and homeless under the rug. I gotta get away from my computer

[MineralMan]

5. The connection between then and now is why I posted it.