The original March on Washington, a cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement, drew approximately 250,000 participants on August 28, 1963.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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Students make voices heard at 60th anniversary of March on Washington
Thousands of people showed up Saturday morning, August 26, to hear speakers honor the anniversary of the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. famously delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
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Remembering Memphis
Last month marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee, a unionization attempt by public sector workers that drew support from civil and labor rights leaders across the nation. Martin Luther King, Jr., in town to organize a march in support of those strikers, was assassinated on […]