The original March on Washington, a cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement, drew approximately 250,000 participants on August 28, 1963.
March on Washington
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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 […]