Marches

I began an apprenticeship at the Newark Museum in 1967, just a month after the riots resulted in 26 deaths and hundreds more serious injuries. My first political march was through Newark’s Central Ward in April of 1968 after Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. It was Palm Sunday, and people came out of churches with children and elders to take part in the March, despite fears of another uprising. Blacks and Whites marched together in common cause and ended the March singing “We Shall Overcome.” In the four decades I lived in Washington, DC, I shot most of the major political marches for causes ranging from the View Nam War to Civil Rights to Women’s Rights. None was more moving that the Newark March.