Franklin and Jerome Cavanagh Detroit's mayor.
Over 125,000 people walked with MLK that day in Detroit including Aretha Franklin's father Rev. However, the Walk to Freedom march in Detroit was enormous by anyone's standards.
That huge event clearly overshadowed the Detroit demonstration. More than 250,000 people attended the famous March on Washington. The date of June 23rd was chosen to honor the 20th anniversary of the Detroit race riot of 1943. march as part of the Walk to Freedom demonstration in Detroit on June 23rd, 1963 according to Culture Trip,
Martin Luther King Jr gave nearly the exact same speech a couple of months before the famous Washington D.C.
