‘I witnessed the best of America’: remembering the March on Washington 60 years on

Participants and organisers look back on the critical role of women, Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King's I have a dream' speech

If that had been us that attacked the Capitol a couple of years ago, they would have shot us," says Ted Dean, 85, from Flomaton, Alabama. Think about it. They would have shot us."

Dean is contrasting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which took place peacefully 60 years ago on Monday, with the deadly insurrection by a mob of Donald Trump supporters at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.