The March on
Washington, was a documentary voiced over by famous and Oscar award winning actor, Denzel
Washington, that discusses Dr. Martin Luther King’s supporters quest to
Washington D.C and the famous speeches and protests he gave and lead. The movie gave background of Dr. King’s supporters,
other civil rights activists, the significance of the march, the role that
young people played in that time, and Dr. King’s powerful speeches
One aspect that
stuck more than others to me in the movie was the importance of the college
students. I did not realize that the young people played a crucial role in
carrying out protests, participating in the marches, and advocating for Dr.
King, until I watched the movie. I have the utmost respect for the college
students who protested by sitting at all white only lunch counters. I know personally
that I would have not been able to keep it together like the college students
did with food being thrown on them, being spit on, hit and kicked constantly by
racists, and the “n” word hurled at them. With out them the progress of America
would not be where it is today.
It’s amazing to
me the impact that Dr. King had on not only black citizens of the U.S. but also
white Hollywood celebrities. I did not
realize that apart of the hundreds of thousands of people that went to see Dr.
King speak, celebrities such as Burt Lancaster, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, and
Charlton Hester went to support Dr. Kings in Washington, D.C. I have heard Dr.
Kings speech several of times, but when I heard it in that movie it was as if I
could actually feel the magnitude of the words that Dr. King was saying. Overall
the movie as a whole was effective and sent a powerful message not only to
Africans Americans, but people of all ethnicities around the world.
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