<P> The march commanded national attention by preempting regularly scheduled television programs . As the first ceremony of such magnitude ever initiated and dominated by African Americans, the march also was the first to have its nature wholly misperceived in advance . Dominant expectations ran from paternal apprehension to dread . On Meet the Press, reporters grilled Roy Wilkins and Martin Luther King about widespread foreboding that "it would be impossible to bring more than 100,000 militant Negroes into Washington without incidents and possibly rioting ." Life magazine declared that the capital was suffering "its worst case of invasion jitters since the First Battle of Bull Run ." The Pentagon readied 19,000 troops in the suburbs and the jails shifted inmates to other prisons to make room for those arrested in mass arrests; the city banned all sales of alcoholic beverages; hospitals made room for riot casualties by postponing elective surgery . With nearly 1,700 extra correspondents supplementing the Washington press corps, the march drew a media assembly larger than the Kennedy inauguration two years earlier . Students from the University of California came together as black power organizations and emphasized on the importance of African American freedom struggle . The march included black political parties and William Worthy who was one of many who lead college students during the freedom struggle era . </P> <P> On August 28, more than 2,000 buses, 21 chartered trains, 10 chartered airliners, and uncounted cars converged on Washington . All regularly scheduled planes, trains, and buses were also filled to capacity . </P> <P> Although Randolph and Rustin had originally planned to fill the streets of Washington, D.C., the final route of the March covered only half of the National Mall . The march began at the Washington Monument and was scheduled to progress to the Lincoln Memorial with a program of music and speakers . Demonstrators were met at the monument by speakers and musicians . Women leaders were asked to march down Independence Avenue, while the male leaders marched on Pennsylvania Avenue with the media . </P> <P> The march failed to start on time because its leaders were meeting with members of Congress . To the leaders' surprise, the assembled group began to march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial without them . The leaders met the March at Constitution Avenue, where they linked arms at the head of a crowd in order to be photographed' leading the march' . </P>

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