![]() ![]() Together along with other organizers, they formed the Detroit Council for Human Rights which would be the organization that would actually put on the Walk to Freedom march. Franklin and Reverend Albert Cleage were Civil Rights leaders who, although they had very different viewpoints and methods of tackling injustice, came together and proposed the idea of having a large march or demonstration in Detroit. King called it "one of the most wonderful things that has happened in America." Origins ĭue to the greater size of the March on Washington, the Detroit Walk to Freedom has been somewhat lost to obscurity outside of local Detroit history. ![]() The march itself was, to King and his supporters, partly a practice run of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was a precursor to his famous " I Have a Dream" speech given weeks later in Washington, D.C. ![]() who after the Walk to Freedom March gave an impassioned speech. Various ministers and leaders of local and national organizations, including the mayor of Detroit, were in attendance and gave speeches. It drew crowds of an estimated 125,000 or more and was known as "the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history" up to that date. The Walk to Freedom was a mass march during the Civil Rights Movement on Jin Detroit, Michigan. Cleveland Convention Center labor dispute. ![]()
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