Although the march was canceled, Randolph hoped to keep the
March on Washington Movement alive. He wanted to create a
permanent mobilized community. This, too, failed to materialize,
but, if it had not been for the war, his efforts might have been
more successful. In September, 1942, Randolph called a meeting of
the March on Washington Movement before which
he outlined his program. He told the conference that slavery had
not ended because it was evil, but because it was violently
overthrown, Similarly, he said that if they wanted to obtain
their rights, they would have to be willing to fight, go to jail,
and die for them. Rights would not be granted; they must be taken
if need be. His plan was to organize a permanent mass movement on
a nationwide basis and to conduct protests, marches, and
boycotts. This was an adaptation of some of Gandhi's techniques
to the Afro-American problem.
The March on Washington Movement was to be an all-Negro
movement. Yet, Randolph did not intend it to be anti-white. He
pointed to the fact that every organization must have its own
purposes, that Catholic groups concentrated on their interests in
the same way as labor groups strove to gain their objectives.
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