Retired school teacher Harold Bragg was at the historic March on Washington in 1963. He was back in the nation's capital this past summer to mark the 50th anniversary of that march and Martin Luther King Junior's "I have a dream" speech.
Bragg shared his memories of that 1963 march, and the 2013 commemoration with WMUK's Earlene McMichael. The "March for Jobs and Freedom" in Washington D.C. came just four months before a snowy night in Kalamazoo when King spoke to a crowd of about 2,000 at Western Michigan University.
Bragg says his parents taught him to “never return hatred with anything but love,” even though repeatedly injustices were done to him and his family. He says his paternal grandfather was shot dead in the South by a racist.
On the day of the historic "March on Washington" Bragg says he remembers how well the races got along that day. And the same was true 50 years later when he was back in the nation's capitol.
