High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom was a non-violent demonstration in Washington, DC on May 17, 1957, and an early event of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. The demonstration was planned at the occasion of the third anniversary of the Brown vs Board of Education, a landmark decision against segregation in public schools of the Supreme Court of the United States, to urge the government to abide by the decision as the process of desegregation was obstructed at local and state levels. The march was organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. It was supported by the NAACP and the recently founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Adam Clayton Powell Jr influenced the planners not to embarrass the administration and thus the event was organized as a prayer commemoration. A call for the demonstration was issued on April 5, 1957 by Randolph, Martin Luther King, and Roy Wilkins.

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