Co-convened by three professors of American History and American Studies — Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Sharon Monteith and Marcia Chatelain, from Germany, Britain and the US — a September 2013 symposium reflected the global impact of the March on Washington by forging a transatlantic conversation in the city of the March.
Hosted by the German Historical Institute in Washington DC and co-funded by the University of Nottingham, Georgetown University and the Institute, it brought together civil rights organizers and scholars with the general public at its keynote event, “Martin’s Dream: The Global legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” where Professor Clayborne Carson posited that Dr King’s “most important contribution was that he not only understood his place in a larger African American freedom struggle but also the place of this effort in a global freedom struggle”.
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