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Today we're going back to October 1995 and Washington DC.

White and Black America back then was divided by the ongoing OJ Simpson trial.

While the economy was strong, the black unemployment rate was at 10%, double that of whites, and an unarmed black motorist Johnny Gammage

had recently been killed by police in Pittsburgh.

Tensions were high. On October the 16th 1995, hundreds of thousands of

African Americans from across the USA gathered in huge numbers to march on the

nation's capital in an attempt to put black issues back on the government agenda

and to present a positive image of black American men.

Organizers called it the Million Man March.

It was a sea of people.

I don't know where the crowd started and where it ended because there were just people everywhere.

And when I looked at the pictures in the Washington Post the next day of how far the crowd

extended down the mall, I had never seen anything like that. So many people.

Some feminists had taken issue with the march being set up as an all-male event, but a small

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