Martin Mcadoo from North Carolina was 19 years old when he came to Washington in support of equal rights for African Americans.
"We were basically following a movement, but we never knew that particular event in the movement would have had the historical value that it turned out to have," he said.
Rowland Scherman was the government's (USIA) primary photographer for the March on Washington. He took thousands of photographs capturing a big part of American history.
"It seemed as though the stories was in the faces. You can see the reaction and the emotions of the people," he recalls.
One of Scherman's photos captures 12-year-old Edith Lee-Payne. Her picture became an iconic image of the demonstration.
"Part of panning through that crowd there was this one, and she was so pretty and she was so interested. I was just drawn to her. I am really proud of that picture and it is being used all over the place," he said.
Lee-Payne returned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the march after meeting photographer Scherman for the first time.
"That was a wonderful experience to see the man behind the camera that saw my face and captured what I was feeling without knowing what I was feeling," she said.
Scherman's photographs were locked away at the National Archives. But thanks to a television documentary called "Eye on the Sixties" by filmmaker Chris Szwedo, many of Scherman's photographs are being seen for the first time.
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