“The eyes of the world are upon us.” They still are.
The quest for freedom and a “more perfect union” has drawn heroes and rebels into American history from the beginning. The White House saw women seize Pennsylvania Avenue for picketing, and later sent an opera singer to desegregate the Lincoln Memorial. Martin Luther King, who would speak there, was eleven when the March on Washington was first planned. A New York hustler found himself in a prison cell with two radical priests, who converted him to compassion. After liberating government cheese, the anti-war activist organized Thanksgiving dinner for homeless Vietnam Veterans, and others, in Lafayette Park.
