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‘You had to be there’: Retired Michigan teacher remembers 1963 March on Washington
That summer day in 1963, at the March on Washington, was a moment Bragg says is too transformative to ever forget. “You had to be there. … That was so wonderful,” he remembered. Remembering the day Harold Bragg walked with thousands of Americans in the 1963 March on Washington is difficult to put into words.
At Kirk’s memorial, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna likened Kirk to MLK, saying “His name will stand etched into history beside the likes of JFK… and Dr. King, who marched into the jaws of hatred sacrificing his safety and ultimately his life to bend the arc of history towards justice.” Needless to say, this had folks fired up.