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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 .
The March on Washington Movement was an attempt to pressure the United States government and President Franklin D. Roosevelt into establishing policy and protections against employment discrimination as the nation prepared for war. A. Philip Randolph was the driving force behind the movement, with allies from the NAACP and other civil rights ...
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
An archive of photos from the 1963 March on Washington, which took place on the National Mall on August 28, 1963.
The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech — and thus as a crowning moment for the long-term civil rights activism of ...
Thousands of people are expected to gather in the nation's capital Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic march.
Coxey's Army marchers leaving their camp. Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.They marched on Washington, D.C., in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history at the time.
A series of meetings in both New York and Washington resulted in the draft order. [3] These meetings involved Randolph and White discussing with Williams, Rosenberg, and New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. [8] The order was drafted by Joseph Rauh. [6] The March on Washington was suspended after Executive Order 8802 was issued on June 25, 1941. [9]