Good morning. It's Monday, August 27, 2018. Fifty-five years ago today, Washington, D.C., began filling up with Americans from every part of this country, especially the South. A crowd of 250,000 was expected on the National Mall, and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota stood in the well of the Senate and uttered some of the most prescient words ever spoken in that chamber.
“When this demonstration has been concluded, we will have evidence in abundance that the lamp of liberty still burns across these shores,” he said. “We will learn again the age-old lesson of liberty that America first learned 200 years ago and has been teaching the rest of mankind ever since.” Humphrey then inserted into the Congressional Record the statement released that day by the 10 civil rights organizations coordinating the March on Washington.
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