And as we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington it is worth reflecting on power… that we are still only a pawn in their game.
And that it is barely two and a half years since a very different march on Washington, an attempted coup.
When five people lost their lives.
If Dr Martin Luther King had a dream back then, America had a nightmare that day.
Alongside Dr King in the capital on August 28, 1963, were a line of Civil Rights luminaries and protest musicians.
Including Bob Dylan who sang the Medgar Evers tribute Only A Pawn In Their Game.
And Joan Baez who led the chorus of We shall overcome.
The Mississippi King
Evers, of course, should have been up there alongside Dr King at the Lincoln Memorial, before the quarter of a million flanking the Reflecting Pool.
But he had been shot down just two months before in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
Five years later Dr King would be dead too.
Evers’ death would ignite the Movement.
And you can be part of a living, growing movement with those who have curated Medgar’s house for future generations.
Or more precisely the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.
Myrlie’s story
Myrlie, Medgar’s devoted wife, is as much part of the Evers story as the king of Mississippi.
And still at 90 she is championing the struggle which is still real and still now.
And still unfinished as evidenced by the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial on the National Mall.
Not even started though is the statue to Medgar Evers because we are still only a pawn in their game.
