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Weren't going to show up. >> a lot of people on the bus were tense. we're getting all these news stories about all the march is going to be violent, we've got to hide the white women. it's going to be riots and devastation. the march was going to be a flop. the dawn starts to come up over the eastern shore of maryland and it begins to get light. and what was around us on that highway was nothing but buses. buses everywhere that you could see. in front of us, behind us, next to us, a whole highway was filled with buses. >> all night long, we were in the process of moving all the signs out to th...

He said nothing, it was a blank piece of paper. >> i was terrified the people weren't going to show up. >> a lot of people on the bus were tense. we're getting all these news stories about all the march is going to be violent, we've got to hide the white women. it's going to be riots and devastation. the march was going to be a flop. the dawn starts to come up over the eastern shore of maryland and it begins to get light. and what was around us on that

Frightened. how could i be the transportation director? i can't drive. which i couldn't, i was a new yorker. and he said to me, no, you are compulsive, and i know you will not lose one person or one organization that wants a bus. and therefore, you should do it. a one-woman travel agency for a 100,000 d.c. march, yeah. >> the last three weeks before the march, i recall being there until 7:30, 8:00 at night on the phones. and by the time the day of the march, i don't think i had ever been that tired in my entire life. >> all of us who worked on the march knew that at some point the right wing w...

Yorker. and he said to me, no, you are compulsive, and i know you will not lose one person or one organization that wants a bus. and therefore, you should do it. a one-woman travel agency for a 100,000 d.c. march, yeah. >> the last three weeks before the march, i recall being there until 7:30, 8:00 at night on the phones. and by the time the day of the march, i don't think i had ever been that tired in my entire life. >> all of us who worked on the march knew that at some point the right wing would have to find some way to discredit this march. finally, it dropped fairly late, strom thurmond d...

Become like the face of the march on washington. >> august 28, 1963 was the hottest day in history. i remember having my feet in the reflecting water, and this little kid, i can't see anything. i'm kind of like anxious now to get back on this yellow rickety bus. ♪ >> i particularly remember mahalia jackson. ♪ find me, lord >> only because everyone around me had just gone wild. >> hallelujah. >> mahalia was the catalyst to that moment. she was the call to order. ♪ >> she was calling everybody to attention. she had come just before dr. king spoke. ♪