Editing Burt Lancaster (section)

===Civil rights movement===
He and his second wife, Norma, hosted a fundraiser for [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] and the [[Student Diversity Leadership Conference]] (SDLC) ahead of the historic [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]] in 1963.<ref name="Buford"/> He attended the march, where he was one of the speakers.<ref>{{cite journal | url = https://variety.com/2015/biz/columns/1963-march-on-washington-hollywood-bob-dylan-sidney-poitier-1201580118/ | title = Hollywood Turned Out for Historic 'I Have a Dream' Speech | last = Gray | first = Tim | date = August 28, 2015 |access-date=August 1, 2018 | journal = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | publisher = [[Penske Business Media, LLC.]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/28/politics/march-on-washington-kennedy-jitters/index.html | title = Kennedy White House had jitters ahead of 1963 March on Washington | last = Matthews | first = David | date = August 28, 2013 |access-date=August 1, 2018 | work = [[CNN Entertainment]] | publisher = [[Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.]]}}</ref> He flew in from France for the event, where he was shooting ''[[The Train (1964 film)|The Train]]'', and flew back again the next day, despite a reported [[fear of flying]].<ref name="Buford">{{Cite web | url = http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Burt+Lancaster:+An+American+Life.-a067051657 | title = Burt Lancaster: An American Life }}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=U54KWuN0lIE | title = Burt Lancaster speaks at the "March on Washington" | website = YouTube |access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref>

On August 28, 1963, at the [[March on Washington]] Lancaster "read the speech that [[James Baldwin]] was supposed to make," because (as [[Malcolm X]] said in a speech delivered in Detroit at the King Solomon Baptist Church in late 1963) "they wouldn't let Baldwin get up there because they know Baldwin is liable to say anything."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boyd |first1=Herb |title=Baldwin's Harlem |date=2008 |publisher=Atria Books |location=New York |isbn=9780743293075 |page=70}}</ref>