The March on Washington was a political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963, by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination, particularly inequalities experienced by Black people, and to show support for major civil right
The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by
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All about the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 by Shmuel Ross Related Links Quotes from Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Speeches Martin Luther King Biography Civil Rights Timeline The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Atten...
Editor's Note, August 23, 2023: In 2013,Smithsonianmagazine commissioned this oral history of the 1963 March on Washington to mark the 50th anniversary of the seminal event. In the decade since, a number of participants, including RepresentativeJohn Lewis,Harry Belafonte,Juanita AbernathyandJulian ...
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013.Jones, William Powell. The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. New York: Norton, 2013. Print....
It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr. lifted the crowd when he told of his dream that all Americans would join together ...
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Bayard Rustin was an American civil rights activist who was a close adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr., and who was the chief organizer of the March on Washington (August 1963), a massive demonstration to rally support for civil rights legislation that w