Million+Man+March-Washington+DC

=Million Man March-Washington DC-1995=

Overview
The Million Man March was a mass gathering in the United States on October 16, 1995. About 850,000 African men met in Washington D.C. The gathering was held in Washington D.C. The Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrahkan was the leader of the march. "Black men from across the world converged on Washington in an effort to convey to the world a vastly different picture of the black male and to unite self help and self defense against economic and social ills plaguing the African American community." Another event called the Day of Absence, was intended to have all the blacks who could not attend the march. These blacks were encouraged to stay home from their work or school to focus on the struggle for a healthy black community.

Central Issue
Some African American leaders felt like their issues went unnoticed at the 1994 congressional election. They felt like their social and economic issues were pushed away by the Republican party. Many of the African American leaders believed they were failing their community by “papering over the most vital dimensions of the crisis in international capitalism and blaming urban Blacks for “domestic economic woes that threatened to produce record deficits, massive unemployment, and uncontrolled inflation. At the time of the march African American unemployment rates were double that of the whites at about 40%. Also the median family income was 58% of the median white family income. Also being a black man was far less safe. About 72 out of 100,000 black men were murdered and 11% of all black men were unemployed. Only 9 out of 100,000 white men are murdered.

Conclusion
This is obvioulsy a big problem in the United States for many years. It is obvious to me that blacks are still not treated equal even though it may seem that way. Many people feel very strongly about this issue. Many very important people spoke at the March. A lot of them were reverends and there were even many important people that experienced the poor treatment blacks went through in our past, including Rosa Parks. More famous people was Martin Luther King III, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Jesse Jackson.