This Train, Part 1 (c 1963)

September 4, 2020, 11:00 pm

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March on Washington Martin Luther King Jr. and Joachim Prinz, 1963 (Wikimedia)

This is part one of This Train, WFMT’s annual remembrance of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington.  Studs joined hundreds of Chicagoans on a train bound for Washington, D.C.  He recorded their thoughts and experiences on his portable tape recorder, and wove those historic voices into this award-winning documentary.