No Man Is Free Unless All Men Are Free

Education and Civil Rights March, circa 1958

The Youth March for Integrated Schools in 1958 was of two Youth Marches in Washington, D.C. On October 25, 1958, approximately 10,000 young people, mostly of high school to college-age, marched to the Lincoln Memorial to promote the desegregation of American public schools.

A. Philip Randolph, a civil rights activist, planned the event published a state…