<P> John Marshall Kilimanjaro, a demonstrator traveling from Greensboro, North Carolina, said: </P> <P> Contrary to the mythology, the early moments of the March--getting there--was no picnic . People were afraid . We didn't know what we would meet . There was no precedent . Sitting across from me was a black preacher with a white collar . He was an AME preacher . We talked . Every now and then, people on the bus sang' Oh Freedom' and' We Shall Overcome,' but for the most part there wasn't a whole bunch of singing . We were secretly praying that nothing violent happened . </P> <P> Other bus rides featured racial tension, as black activists criticized liberal white participants as fair - weather friends . </P> <P> Hazel Mangle Rivers, who had paid $8 for her ticket--"one - tenth of her husband's weekly salary"--was quoted in the August 29 New York Times . Rivers stated that she was impressed by Washington's civility: "The people are lots better up here than they are down South . They treat you much nicer . Why, when I was out there at the march a white man stepped on my foot, and he said, "Excuse me," and I said "Certainly!" That's the first time that has ever happened to me . I believe that was the first time a white person has ever really been nice to me ." </P>

Who was the labor leader who led the march on washington in august 1963