From the archives: 1963 March on Washington covered by CBS News' Walter Cronkite

Watch CBS News' special report on the March on Washington anchored by Walter Cronkite on Aug. 28, 1963.
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[@nanasewdear]

I was 6-years-old when this march took place and Strom Thurmond was still active in Congress when I was in my 40's. What a shame we didn't learn from such history and the inexcusable racism still exists and is openly flaunted by some of our representatives. We are repeating the history we failed to learn. Thanks for posting, this was a treat to watch.

[@-danR]

Strom: too much woke.

[@hankabbey92]

You can hear a young Dylan singing in the background when Lena Horne is interviewed. Incredible.

[@Tom-TV-vl4to]

thank you for uploading this old videotape

[@eliharp3576]

Thank you so much I absolutely loved watching! My Mother probably didn't even know she was pregnant with me. At that time she only had a yellow transistor radio in the kitchen to listen to the report.

[@Greybeard1357]

It's a shame to have lived long enough to have watched this live and see the needs, hopes and dreams expressed then STILL being hoped for now some 60 years later. We MUST do better as a country and as a people. Unfortunately we are more divided now than in 1861.

[@Saiyan36912]

True

[@AidanDotDash]

bro if you think we’re more divided now than 1861 you are dead wrong 😂

[@Saiyan36912]

@@AidanDotDash how look at population numbers from then to now

[@Independents2024]

The American Empire is over. A new nation will rise. All you can do is hope for whatever that will be. It is likely going to be Nationalism under Trump. A true Nationalistic economy which is total Communism. That's what MAGA wants but they have no clue that Nationalism is Communism. Too late now.

[@dennispearson871]

What a time capsule !! This is great precious footage of a very pivotal moment in american history !!

[@juresichj]

Thank you for posting this. I was only three years old when this happened, but I know the names of all the people they referred to. And I miss Cronkite's voice.

[@Mr.JoeMontanya]

Too bad later generations forgot or refuse to believe the message from back then this video barely has any views and we just had a racially motivated mass shooting...

[@HOHLfmly]

Congress had Kennedy’s New Civil Rights Bill in front of them. And the March was a show of support for the Bill. It was not passed, however, before November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was assassinated. The bill was left in the hands of Lyndon B. Johnson. Before becoming vice president, Johnson used his substantial political acumen, the assistance of Robert Kennedy’s Justice Department, and the outpouring of emotion after President Kennedy’s assassination to generate passage of the Civil Rights Act.

[@youtubecantsaveallthesnowf8601]

Lbj also had some amazing quotes about the black community that violate community guidelines. He did it to pander, but never wanted to do it.

[@9xmeysj]

​@@youtubecantsaveallthesnowf8601 The fact that a white President said racist things is anything but shocking. Anti-black racism is deeply rooted in American culture. Abraham Lincoln also wished he could save the Union without freeing black people from enslavement. Black folks have always had to fight for or negotiate for freedom with people who are less than fully commited to the virtue of equity. So what? Freedom, at all costs.

[@VoteForBukele]

I wish I could read social media comments from that era. You know they’d be hilarious.

[@terryaichele9265]

Thank you CBS News for sharing this historic news program. I hope that CBS News has plans for sharing more CBS Live & Recorded Special Reports & Documentaries in the coming months and years.

[@turntableone4356]

Wonder if Strrom Thurmond asked his black daughter how she felt?

[@TheBigguy541]

Very cool. Thanks

[@SamAsm367]

"Until the least of us is free, we can't be free." Imagine if the journalism had been crap. And the crowd marched together without their leaders! Movement of the people for real😁 The crowd waving to us from another century has me in my feelings. They did it for us. All of us.

[@sweett2185]

And it is up to us to take the mantle from them and move forward. My parents and 6 of their friends contributed to the white people in attendance. They drove 380 miles round trip. I have 2 black & white pics they took while there. I truly enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing.

[@user-pe8ez8mg3w]

Ah, yes, the BEAUTIFUL Miss Lena Horne! 🥰

[@malafunkshun8086]

Important history - Mahalo for sharing this! Aloha 🇺🇸🙏🏼🤙🏼

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Thank you!🤗🇺🇸 👍💙🌊

[@DeusShaggy]

The lost of the Great Library of Alexandria was one of the most significant losses to humanity, but it truly pales in comparison to the fact that so much human potential is unneedingly made unachievable by the uneven distribution of resources in Society. Look at history and you can see the unfair slant of Society.

[@EdKazO-Vision]

Thank you so much for this upload. It was exciting to hear Dylan singing “Only a Pawn in their Game” during the Lena Horne interview. Strom Thurmond: Poster boy for the Wrong Side of History

[@raizedbynerdz8718]

WOW!! LOOK..ACTUAL NEWS!! Remember how this used to be done? Can we go back to this instead of opinion hacks

[@carollund8251]

Did you listen to the whole thing? There is commentary/opinion near the end. Not strident like nowadays but not neutral either. Fortunately on the side of equal rights and freedom. Also, before that, two congressmen spoke giving completely opposite opinions. It was not just a robotic report on what was happening.

[@lauramendoza5163]

This doc should be shown in every High School civics class.

[@carollund8251]

God listen to that Thurmond' s accent. He sounds like he came right out of the Confederate Army.

[@HOHLfmly]

Philip Hart, another Democrat Congressman from Michigan. The March is an excellent thing, and it is a march with all Americans and it is all to the good! I doubt it will change anyone’s decision on how to vote on this Civil Rights Bill. This march does crystallize to the rest of the world that we don’t practice what we preach.

[@bijanbayne3259]

There's a Senate Ofc. Bdg. names for Phillip Hart

[@MrSphinxman]

We press forward

[@jahjoeka]

Release all the tapes!

[@steveconn]

Year began with such hope, ended with Cronkite reporting JFK assassination (Malcolm and King next). Bob Dylan sang there too, when you could understand him!

[@lauramendoza5163]

Hmmm wonder if Cronkite had a photographic memory.

[@ladyzinada5341]

😢 STILL I RISE!! Maya Angelou. Thank God for blessing US through. AMEN.

[@ifiknewthen13]

Maya....And still they rise

[@williammcghee863]

That Strom Thurmond interview summed up why the March on Washington was needed as a show of support. Imagine the spokesman for racial ignorance and segregation speaking proudly what this country has done for "negroes."

[@Tom-TV-vl4to]

this took place 60 years ago

[@geoffpauloramos]

Hi

[@DougGrinbergs]

2:43 signs incl. "no US dough to help Jim Crow!"

[@ronaldgoldson8440]

""GOD WILL ALWAYS REMAIN 'AMERICAS CLEAR AND PRESENT' HELP !"❤

[@russell2550]

I was not quite a year old. I was only a baby

[@Kingtony227]

that was a weird clip 🤔 10:18

[@nygreek743]

Why are we watching this in August?

[@bengarland6934]

August 28, 1963

[@sligojoe3152]

Trump, ❗ I here by declare by THE CONSTITUTION of THE UNITED STATES 14 AMENDMENT SEC 3 YOUR DECLARATION TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IS HERE BY TERMINATED FOREVER & A DAY ❗🥃😊

[@jgg22100]

Exact opposite of the jan.6 insurrection💙💙

[@jahjoeka]

Funny how the country is going backwards

[@GP-nr2fm]

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. Thomas Sowell

[@rachelelizondo6585]

Americans were Americans when the rally on the white house

[@bobby-ov9qn]

"I don't want my kids to grow up in racial jungle". > > Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

Disclaimer and Trigger warning: This video contains copious amounts of truth and common sense. These values have been found to break what ever MAGA cultists use to think with.

[@JamalMuadhuni]

It's a big thing for me to be the first in this big international channel, I'm asking for a hundred likes

[@nygreek743]

I hear McDonald’s is hiring

[@HOHLfmly]

Strong Thurman a Democrat Congressman from South Carolina. He did not think that the march would help the Blacks goals. They have the same rights as everyone else. At this point, and enjoy many benefits like everyone else, they have more opportunity here in America then in any other nation in the world. They have housing, refrigerators, automobiles, dishwashers, and washing machines. They should be proud that they live in the land of freedom. I feel that the civil rights bill is not needed and is unconstitutional and will not pass.

[@turntableone4356]

He should have asked his black daughter that he fathered back in 1925.

[@rickmartin7132]

Thurmond was a racist hypocrite

[@notinmyUSMC]

The crowd in 1963 chanted, "we want jobs." Today the crowd chants, "we want the government to give us everything so we won't need to work."

[@madkilla77]

Huh

[@bobby-ov9qn]

And if that doesn't work, "smash and grab" will do the trick.

[@notinmyUSMC]

@@bobby-ov9qn Amen, brother!

[@oofoof6577]

And tell me how wanting to get a fair days pay for a fair days work by implementing a minimum wage and trying to get taxpayers money to pay for essentials that every person needs counts as government "giving" people stuff so they don't work

[@IamPreacherMan]

Dog whistlers gonna whistle.

[@rionasera]

The beginning of the end of America.

[@EdKazO-Vision]

Explain

[@rickmartin7132]

​@EdKazO-Vision only for racist like you, my dear friend

[@rickmartin7132]

Only for racist like you, my dear racist friend

[@captjohnson5452]

Nobody cursed everybody spoke with a sense of pride. Everybody dressed and acted with a sense of pride. Even when things where way worse for them then they are for us they still acted like mature human beings.

[@leighobrien840]

Communists 🤣😂🤣😂

[@waltonsmith7210]

It was true. Not an unreasonable assumption.Not a bad thing in my opinion.

[@rickmartin7132]

Obviously you don't know what a "communist" is, do you?