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A Jamaican immigrant’s notebook: 50th Anniversary of March on Washington D.C., Aug. 2
As I sat under an Elm Tree, Wednesday morning, hours before bells tolled time for reflection on the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Monument I wondered who might have sat at the same spot on Aug. 28, 1963. I pondered mindfully, the image of which brave, dream-seeking champion did I owe a moment of gratitude and how she or he might have felt listening to the voices of so many iconic speakers one year before President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. There I sat, wearing the black, green and gold colors of my native Jamaica. More...