ABSTRACT
An astonishing array of political forces were present at the magnificent March on Washington, DC—black nationalists and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) members, feminists and labor leaders, environmentalists and Latinos, peace activists and elected officials, gay men and lesbians, Marxists and liberal Republicans. It was the coalition of the oppressed which comprises a majority of American society—the same bloc of social and political forces which made the basis for Harold Washington's mayoral victory in Chicago earlier this year. The call for "Jobs, Peace, and Freedom", despite the general theoretical fuzziness of March Convenors Coretta Scott King and Joe Lowery of SCLC, can become the foundation for developing a progressive multi-class, multiracial program. The Communication Workers of America endorsed the March at its June convention in Los Angeles; the General Executive Board of the United Electrical Workers (UE) called for "the biggest possible UE participation in the march.
