Something Good: OKC Group Marches In Washington

Fifty-seven years ago Friday, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

This year, a group from Oklahoma City made the 20-hour drive to the nation's capital to participate in Friday’s march.

Three years before the March on Washington, Dr. King spoke at the Cavalry Baptist Church where he denounced racial segregation.

Sixty years after that speech, a group from Oklahoma City is continuing the movement for racial equality at the site of Dr. King's most famous speech.

An Oklahoma City contingent of 60 people from various organizations made the trip.

Ten of them piled into a van Wednesday morning.

Going to the march will be bittersweet for Aleah Walker. Her grandfather was at the original March in 1963.

 "He was there all those years ago,” Walker said. “And now, I'm his grandchild and I have to be out here again and still fight for the same things he did.”

The group attended Rev. Al Sharpton's "Get Your Knee Off Our Necks" Commitment March on Washington.

Martin Luther King III also spoke, along with family members of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake.

The group says they hope to take what they learn in D.C. back to OKC.

"I hope to be educated by others who have been in this fight for decades," Correct Heart President Blaze said. "They opened the door, but I think it's time we go ahead and seal the frame. And make sure that everyone knows no matter what your skin color is, you deserve the same rights that our forefathers laid down the basis of this country for."