Children's March for Survival ephemera

Collection — Box: BW-1, Folder: 4

Identifier: MS-0979

Staff Only

Content Description

A collection of seven items from the 1972 Children’s March for Survival, which was organized by the National Welfare Rights Organization to protest the Nixon administration's policies on welfare, education, and child care. Items include a flyer with information about participation in the march; informational handouts about student rights, the H.R. 1 welfare reform bill’s impacts on low-income families, the free and reduced price school lunch program, environmental health impacts on children, benefits for low-income children under Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA); and a flyer titled “Does President Nixon care about children?” which condemns Nixon’s political record on families.

Dates

Creation: 1972 March 25

Creator

National Welfare Rights Organization (U.S.) (Organization)

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Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

The Children's March for Survival was organized by the National Welfare Rights Organization and held in Washington, DC on Saturday, March 25, 1972. The event was organized to protest the Nixon administration’s policies on welfare, education, and child care. Over 30,000 people participated, including thousands of children. Approximately 2/3 of participants were Black DC residents, although the march attracted demonstrators from other East Coast cities and the DC metropolitan area. Speakers included Coretta Scott King, Jesse Jackson, Ralph David Abernathy, Eugene McCarthy, Bella Abzug, Shirley MacLaine, Gloria Steinem, and John Kerry.

Source: “30,000, Many of Them Children, Protest Nixon Welfare Policies.” New York Times, March 26, 1972.