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Signs were still being put together just before one Lutheran group massed to march in the civil rights demonstration in the nation’s capital on Aug. 28, 1963. From left to right are: The Rev. Ralph E. Wiechmann, pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield, Va., who was secretary of the all-Lutheran ministerial association of metropolitan Washington; Robert P. Cook, a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Franconia, Va., who was a freshman student at Concordia College in Bronxville, New York; and the Rev. Don Prange, pastor of Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Pittsburgh. Photo courtesy ELCA Archives