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Million Man March Research Paper

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Being minorities, African American men, women, and children have frequently encountered injustices in the United States. There’s many people that blame society, many people that blame the white men, and many other people that blame the African Americans themselves. Although in the Million Man March, black Americans from every part of the nation came together, not to blame anyone for those injustices, but to strive for a better tomorrow. Many individuals, participating in the Million Man March, were no longer looking to make excuses, they wanted change, and the unification through this march was going to bring that change. As the leader of the Million Man March, Minister Louis Farrakhan, stated “it was a march of individual atonement.” Meaning African Americans were going to start opening doors for opportunities, were going to bring individual support to one another, and were going to once and for all create a change amongst the African …show more content…

were over 400,000 people. Amongst the crowd were black men, both young and old; Christians, Muslims, Hebrews, Agnostics, nationalists, pan-Africanists, civil rights organizations, and fraternal organizations all untied for one purpose: to repair all the the wrong they had faced. In Long Live the Spirit, a documentary about the Million Man March, many African Americans were interviewed and asked why they were going to participate in this march and their answers were shocking. One of the stories that struck me the most was two African American men that took the bus from Ellis Island to Washington D.C. to be a part of this march. They had no money, they had no hotel (or place to stay in), yet they found it more important to be a part of this march. The individuals said that they wanted to create peace, they wanted to make a difference and belong to something more important, they wanted to create a different image of what being “black” meant to

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