Twenty-one charter trains carrying African Americans from around the country pulled into Washington on the morning of the march, and at one point buses filled with marchers flowed through the Baltimore tunnel at the rate of 100 per hour, according to prominent civil rights historian Taylor Branch. One African American roller skated to the march from Chicago, while another, an 82-year-old, rode his bicycle from Ohio.
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