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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, [1] [2] was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. [3] The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
EDITOR’S NOTE — On Aug. 28, 1963, AP reporter Raymond J. Crowley went to the National Mall and chronicled the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which went on to become one of the most ...
Eight months before the March on Washington, King gave an address in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, with similar themes, including a dream.. In June 1963, King spoke in Detroit and opened with the ...
The Big Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
After the Washington, D.C. March, a recording of King's Cobo Hall speech was released by Detroit's Gordy Records as an LP entitled The Great March To Freedom. [24] The March on Washington Speech, known as "I Have a Dream Speech", has been shown to have had several versions, written at several different times. [25]
1963 August 28 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Major civil rights march at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. 250,000 gathered for the event. 1965 November 27 March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam Organized by the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE). An ...
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who died Friday at age 80, famously gave a speech at the March on Washington in 1963. At just 23, he was the youngest civil rights activist to deliver an address to the ...
On Aug. 28, 1963, from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. began by speaking of poverty, segregation and discrimination and how the United States had reneged on its promise ...