Mission on the Mall: Save the children

摘要

In the days before Washington's Million Man March became history, there lingered among its organizers an overwhelming doubt that it would succeed. The divisive outcome of the O. J. Simpson trial and the spectral presence of the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan cast a pall over the proceedings to come, depriving the marchers of a moral center and distracting workers striving to keep the event on track. One insider confessed to a "sinking feeling" that "everything is going wrong."