The 50 year march: a lifelong activist returns to Washington
Anne Jackson's first march on Washington was in the late 1960s. She was a 20-year-old protesting the Vietnam War … and for the past 4 decades she hasn't stopped. She's marched for gender equality, human rights, the environment — and on January 21 2017, now almost 70, she marched again.
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Anne Jackson (right) has been making her opinions heard through protest for 50 years. (Peggy Hartzell)
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Anne Jackson's first march on Washington was in the late 1960s.
She was a 20-year-old protesting the Vietnam War … and for the past 4 decades she hasn't stopped.
She's marched for gender equality, human rights, the environment — and on January 21 2017, now almost 70, she marched again.
Our documentary is titled Why We March. Hear stories of protest from the old days, join the Women's March on Washington, and learn, why, after all these years — Anne Jackson is still marching.
From left: Anne Jackson and Lee & Susan Landis at their home in Coventryville PA. (Julia Pagel)
Peggy Hartzell holds above her head a poster of Esther DeBerdt Reed, who was her 4th great grandmother — she painted this for Philadelphia's sister march. She also holds Kuan Yin, a piece of art that she often brings to marches. (Heather Hurlock)
The Doc Project's Julia Pagel travelled to Washington, D.C. for the Women's March on Washington with a group from Pennsylvania that included her aunt, Anne Jackson — and live blogged the journey. Continue reading →
Documenting protest over the decades
A local Quaker couple “waging peace” in JFK Plaza/Love Park, Philadelphia at an anti-Vietnam War protest, 1969. (Peggy Hartzell)
A young mother taking a break from the demonstration to end the war and feeding her baby near the Washington Monument in D.C. (Peggy Hartzell)
Annie Jackson, exhausted after an anti-Vietnam march, in Washington, D.C., 1969. (Arthur Kamus)
All over the United States people decried discrimination by the draft system “against low-education, low-income, underprivileged members of society.” (Peggy Hartzell)
Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, October 15, 1969 stops at an intersection in Washington D.C. (Peggy Hartzell)
About the producer
Julia Pagel Julia Pagel is a radio producer based in Toronto. She's currently the associate producer of The Doc Project, and has worked on such CBC shows as As It Happens and q. She has previously worked at Banff Centre Radio in Alberta.
