Sixty-three years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared his dream on the National Mall, thousands returned to defend ground already won. Dr. Sharon M. Holder breaks down why democracy requires constant vigilance and why “the fierce urgency of now” is a mandate for our generation.
March on Washington
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Historic March on Washington anniversary commemorated with calls for continued civil rights struggle
The original March on Washington, a cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement, drew approximately 250,000 participants on August 28, 1963.
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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 […]