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https://wamu.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/22/storycorps_corenyc_1_wide-a129670afa62ff3224552416cab6f77356396994.jpg27761559Lawrence Cumberbatch's parents thought their 16-year-old son was too young to walk from Brooklyn to the March on Washington in 1963. And enlisting Lawrence's uncle to dissuade him didn't have quite the effect they had hoped for, Lawrence tells his son, Simeon.