In the summer of 1963, Suzanne Chandler was 16 and had been looking for a part-time job in the nation’s capital, where she grew up as a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish.
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King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Message Is Locked in a Local Woman’s Memory
In the early 1960s, Helen Cureton, originally from Greenville, South Carolina, was in her 20s, single, and working as a radiology technician in Queens.
Catholics Shared In MLK’s Vision: Iconic Civil Rights March, Speech Took Place 60 Years Ago
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — a political demonstration that took place 60 years ago in the U.S. capital to protest racial discrimination and show support for major civil rights legislation pending in Congress — had a definite Catholic presence.