Editing Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (section)

=== Sidelining of women ===
A feature of the march itself, was that men and women were directed to proceed separately and that only male speakers were scheduled to address the [[Lincoln Memorial]] rally. Together with [[Coretta Scott King]] and other the wives of civil  leaders<ref name=":8">{{Cite magazine |last=Scanlon |first=Jennifer |date=2016-03-16 |title=Where Were the Women in the March on Washington? |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/131587/women-march-washington |access-date=2023-10-12 |issn=0028-6583}}</ref> SNCC staffer and Ella Baker protégé [[Casey Hayden]] found herself walking up Independence Avenue while the media recorded the men marching down Constitution Avenue.<ref>Harold Smith (2015). "Casey Hayden: Gender and the Origins of SNCC, SDS, and the Women's Liberation Movement". In Turner, Elizabeth Hayes; Cole, Stephanie; Sharpless, Rebecca (eds.). ''Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives''. University of Georgia Press. pp. 359–384. {{ISBN|9780820347905}}. p. 374</ref> 

Despite protesting behind the scenes with [[Anna Hedgeman]] (who was to go on to co-found the [[National Organization for Women]]), women were to be featured as singers, but not as speakers.<ref name=":8" /> In the event, a few women were allowed to sit on the [[Lincoln Memorial]] platform and the NAACP's  [[Daisy Bates (activist)|Daisy Bates]], who had been instrumental in the integration of [[Little Rock Central High School]], was permitted a brief tribute to "Negro Women Fighters for Freedom".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Engel |first=Keri Lynn |date=2022 |title=The Role of Women In the 1963 March on Washington |url=https://amazingwomeninhistory.com/women-in-the-march-on-washington/ |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=amazingwomeninhistory.com |language=en-US}}</ref>  From their "bitterly humiliating" experience in Washington, [[Pauli Murray]], who later coined the term "Jane Crow" to describe the double handicap of race and sex, concluded that black women "can no longer postpone or subordinate the fight against discrimination because of sex to the civil rights struggle but must carry on both fights simultaneously."<ref name=":8" />