World News Tonight (ABC) - 1993-08-28
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[0:00] Don Martin. Good evening. Tens of
[0:02] thousands of Americans marched through
[0:04] heat and history today to keep alive a
[0:07] dream of racial equality. They came here
[0:09] to Washington 30 years to the moment
[0:11] from when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
[0:13] spoke to America of a day when all races
[0:16] could live in harmony. As ABC's Jim
[0:18] Hickeyi reports tonight, the marchers
[0:20] found this new day a mixture of hope and
[0:23] despair.
[0:25] >> Where did it go?
[0:27] The march stepped off in the sweltering
[0:29] August heat of Washington DC where the
[0:32] humidity made it seem like 110°. The hot
[0:35] weather, however, did not discourage the
[0:37] marchers.
[0:39] Veterans of the civil rights movement
[0:40] who led the procession included the
[0:42] widow of Martin Luther King Jr., Ketta
[0:44] Scott King, the Reverend Jesse Jackson,
[0:47] and Georgia Congressman John Lewis. They
[0:49] and many others who came to Washington
[0:51] today were here 30 years ago taking part
[0:54] in that first historic march. It was
[0:56] then that Reverend King delivered his
[0:58] eloquent speech in which he dreamed
[1:00] about racial justice and equality.
[1:02] >> I have a dream
[1:07] that my four little children
[1:11] will one day live in A NATION WHERE THEY
[1:13] WILL NOT BE JUDGED BY THE COLOR OF THEIR
[1:15] SKIN, but by the content of their
[1:17] character. I HAVE A DREAM TODAY.
[1:20] Most blacks agree there has been some
[1:22] progress in three decades, but most also
[1:25] argue the dream has not yet been
[1:26] fulfilled. With the unemployment rate
[1:29] among blacks at 12.9%
[1:31] higher than it was 30 years ago, some
[1:33] even say things have gotten worse. John
[1:36] Godwin participated in that first march
[1:38] as a teenag