On September 4, 1978 WRL members launched simultaneous disarmament demonstrations on the White House Lawn in Washington DC and in Red Square in Moscow USSR. This creative—and maybe rash—action was the brainchild of WRL staffers, notably Jerry Coffin and Lynne Shatzkin Coffin.
I was honored to be tasked to lead the Washington contingent.
It was a few minutes before midnight on August 27, 1963, when I arrived by train from my home in Scarsdale, NY, at the 125th Street train station in New York City and walked half a dozen blocks to the Harlem office of the Congress of Racial Equality, known as “CORE,” with a ticket to board a bus bound for Washington, D.C., and the much anticipated and widely publicized March on Washington
WRL'S Continental Walk took place during the U.S. bicentennial year. WRL was also active with the anti-establishment July 4th Coalition, which highlighted the American Revolution's unfinished business to create a just and equal society.
