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The March on Washington was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. Some 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, and more than 3,000 members of the press covered the event. A lot of very memorable events and speeches were held at the March on Washington in 1963. For example Martin Luther King Jr'most memorable speech, "I Have a Dream."

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his assassination in 1968. In his iconic speech at the Lincoln Memorial for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, King urged America to "make real the promises of democracy." King synthesized portions of his earlier speeches to capture both the necessity for change and the potential for hope in American society. King stressed the importance of nonviolent resistance and vividly painted his vision of a better future for people of all colors in the United States.

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Martin Luther King | "I Have A Dream" Speech

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Asa Philip Randolph was leader in the Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties. Before the March on Washington on March of 1963, A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin started the March on Washington Movement in 1941, with the idea to produce a mass march on Washington D.C. The march was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not support the March on Washington movement, he proposed a Civil Right Act in order for the March on Washington from happening because he opposed the idea. With only a week left till the march, Roosevelt creates the first national Fair Employment Practices Committee. The act purpose of the act was banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work. Randolph was of course satisfied with the Civil Right Act, so he postponed his protest for more than two decades. Which is why the March on Washington movement did not take place in the 1940s.

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The march was successful in pressuring the administration of John F. Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress. After the March on Washington, Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders met with President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House, where they discussed the need for bipartisan support of civil rights legislation. Though they were passed after Kennedy’s death, the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 reflect the demands of the march. Together the two bills outlawed segregated public facilities and prohibited discriminatory practices in employment and voting. The success of the March on Washington and the achievements of the modern black freedom struggle reverberated throughout society and provided a model for social change. The power of mass nonviolent demonstrations inspired Americans fighting for equal rights and access to opportunities regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation, or disabilities.

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Editors, History.com. “A. Philip Randolph.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 27 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/black-history/a-philip-randolph.

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“Timeline: The Civil Rights Era.” The Washington Post, WP Company, www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/local/timeline-the-civil-rights-era/401/.

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In refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, activist Rosa Parks starts a 381-day bus boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr., in Montgomery, Ala. The boycott ends in victory on Dec. 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court rules that segregation on buses is illegal.

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Four black college students are refused service and asked to leave a segregated lunch counter at a Woolworth store in Greensboro, N.C., but they remain seated. Their passive resistance inspires a movement. Hundreds of students at college campuses across the South, and eventually farther north, begin organizing sit-ins. The Woolworth lunch counter is desegregated July 25, 1960.

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Fire hoses are turned on SCLC demonstrators

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Fire hoses are turned on SCLC demonstrators

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Birmingham, Ala.'s public safety commissioner, Eugene "Bull" Connor, unleashes dogs and uses high-powered fire hoses against demonstrators from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Many nonviolent protesters were beaten in clashes with police.

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video Bull Connor 2 (Firehoses & Police Dogs).mp4

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Medger Evers, field secretary for the NAACP, is assassinated in his driveway by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Evers had survived several previous assassination attempts. Beckwith is convicted of murder in 1994 before a racially diverse jury.

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The amendment becomes part of the Constitution, prohibiting Congress and the states from imposing a poll tax or any other form of tax as a requisite to vote in federal elections. Poll taxes had previously been used in the South to prevent blacks from voting.

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The Council of Federated Organizations and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee are among civil rights organizations seeking to dramatically increase voter registration among blacks in Mississippi during what will later be termed "Freedom Summer."

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SullenToys.com. “Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963.” YouTube, YouTube, 20 Jan. 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs.

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“March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, 4 June 2018, kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/march-washington-jobs-and-freedom.