Larry Fink on Trump, the 1963 march on Washington and today's BLM movement

Fifty-seven years ago, on 28 August 1963, Larry Fink was zooming down the highway from New York to Washington DC, an American flag streaming from the back of his motorcycle. The highway was busy with fellow motorists with the same destination in mind. “Every time we would pass each other by, there would be a tremendous outroar of comradery,” he tells The Independent.

Fink, then a young photographer in his early twenties, was heading to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He didn’t know it then, but it would become one of the defining moments of the American civil rights movement. Fink was one of the 250,000 people to gather in the capital that day for a black-organised peaceful march that culminated in Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.