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A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin call for a march to Washington D.C to protest discriminatory hiring by defense contracters during world war 2
This march was called of after Franklin Roosevelt banned discriminatory hiring in the defense industry most likely because the march that was scheduled for July 1st 1941 was going to be problematic. They continued to envison several other marches for the remainder of the 1940s however these were all called off. -
The 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom march
The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom was a demonstration that took place in 1957 and was meant to mark the third anniversary of the Brown v Board of Education case. The demonstration lasted 3 hours and many key figures in the civil rights movement attended or spoke at it including Mahalia Jackson, Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King Jr. The event was orginazed by A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and Ella baker, it was backed by the NAACP and the Southern Christian leadership conference.