Civil Rights: The spirit of freedom, In an exclusive with Essence, Network's National Executive Director Tamika D. Mallory makes a passionate call to reignite the fire for social justice. In 1963 we faced an uphill battle for the right to vote. We couldn't sit at the front of the bus and had to drink out of separate water fountains. And our schools and public spaces were still largely segregated. I wasn't alive on August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands joined Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. That historic day brought both Blacks and Whites together on the side of justice. At a time when we were still disenfranchised at the polls, facing discrimination in employment and housing, and suffering from unfair pay and unequal access to just about everything, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was one of the largest rallies ever convened. With no Internet, Twitter, Facebook, e-mail or cell p...