ladies and gentlemen to raise going to speak for prole 35 minutes. then he will be glad to answer your questions. is with great honor and pleasure that i introduce to you the author of the march on washington jobs, freedom, and the freedom hester's of rights. >> a professor at the university of wisconsin milwaukee. thanks for all of you for coming out and listening. i will put these down so that i don't knock them off. it is really great to be able to talk about this book here or as the event that i describe in turn makes sense of and is also rich real the talk about and on the 50th anniversary the meaning of the march, a legacy of the march, and the degree to which we as a nation have lived up to the dream the organizers of the march. i did not actually set out to write this book. i was doing research on what i thought would be a different book. and discovered a really fascinating collection of papers connected to the negro american labor council. this is -- or by a service to call a lesser rights organization, lazar forgotten. i knew something abou