Andre Braugher Quotes
I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.
The March had begun in Selma with 600 marchers who were brutally beaten and harassed along the way. This brought clergy and lay people from the country over to join the protest march and when King gave the speech the marchers had swelled to 25,000.
The planning and management of the March on Washington of 1963 was dominated by well educated and/or very experienced leaders of Middle Class type institutions—churches, labor unions, governments, educational institutions, and even middle class entertainment. A few Black critics felt that the deep South Black Sharecroppers were not well represented, intellectually or culturally. To many this was the great genius of the March on Washington where there were a hundred million Americans prepared to find great fault with the march and what they saw was a reflection of themselves trying to protest a grievance.
Andre Keith Braugher is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Police Captain Raymond Holt in the police comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–present), as detective Frank Pembleton in the police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999), and used car salesman Owen Thoreau Jr. in the comedy-drama series Men of a Certain Age (2009–2011)
