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Violated amendments that lead to the March on Washington:
- 15th Amendment  - Forbade any state to deprive a citizen of his vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- Civil Rights Act of 1871 - unlawful for anyone acting under the authority of state law to deprive another person of his or her rights under the Constitution or federal law.

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Some things that the March on Washington caused were the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which desegregated public institutions and outlawed employment discrimination and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
These documents made life easier for African Americans to be equal to everybody else in employment, salary, and voting.

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The key strategy of the March on Washington was to nonviolently pressure the U.S. government lawmakers to change discriminatory laws against the African Americans.

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- May 17, 1954: Marches were demanded.
- December 13,1962: The planning of the March on Washington.
- August 28,1963: The March on Washington took place.
- July 2,1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed.
- April 4,1968: Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

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1. A. Phillip Randolph a civil rights leader who was known for being in charge of the March on Washington and tried mainly to deal with economic problems facing the black community
2. Whitney M. Young Jr. a civil rights leader who's main focus was to end work discrimination in the US
3. Martin Luther King Jr a nonviolent civil rights leader and help organize the March on Washington
3. James Farmer a civil rights activist and worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and organized the Freedom Ride
4. Roy Wilkins a civil rights activist and from the 1930s to the 1970s he was the Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
5. John Lewis a civil rights leader who help organize the March on Washington and was part of the "Big Six"
6. Bayard Rustin was an american leader in social movements for civil rights, nonviolent, gay rights, and socialism and was the chief organizer for the March on Washington

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One of the main organizations involved in the March on Washington was the Congress of Racial Equality(CORE). CORE was founded in 1942. They became one of the leading activist organizations in the beginning of the the American Civil Rights Movement. CORE worked with several other civil rights groups to make initiatives: the Freedom Rides, the Freedom Summer voter registration project, and the March on Washington.

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The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.'s now-iconic "I Have a Dream" speech.

Lead-Up to the March on Washington

In 1941, A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and an elder statesman of the civil rights movement, had planned a mass march on Washington to protest Black soldier's exclusion from World War II defense jobs and New Deal programs.

But a day before the event, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Randolph and agreed to issue an executive order forbidding discrimination against workers in defense industries and government and establishing the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) to investigate charges of racial discrimination. In return, Randolph called off the planned march.

In the mid-1940s, Congress cut off funding to the FEPC, and it dissolved in 1946; it would be another 20 years before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was formed to take on some of the same issues.

Meanwhile, with the rise of the charismatic young civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in the mid-1950s, Randolph proposed another mass march on Washington in 1957, hoping to capitalize on King's appeal and harness the organizing power of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP).

In May 1957, nearly 25,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the third anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education ruling, and urge the federal government to follow through on its decision in the trial.

SCLC and the March on Washington

In 1963, in the wake of violent attacks on civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, momentum built for another mass protest on the nation's capital.

With Randolph planning a march for jobs, and King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) planning one for freedom, the two groups decided to merge their efforts into one mass protest.

That spring, Randolph and his chief aide, Bayard Rustin, planned a march that would call for fair treatment and equal opportunity for Black Americans, as well as advocate for passage of the Civil Rights Act (then stalled in Congress).

President John F. Kennedy met with civil rights leaders before the march, voicing his fears that the event would end in violence. In the meeting on June 22, Kennedy told the organizers that the march was perhaps "ill-timed," as "We want success in the Congress, not just a big show at the Capitol."

Randolph, King and the other leaders insisted the march should go forward, with King telling the president: "Frankly, I have never engaged in any direct-action movement which did not seem ill-timed."

JFK ended up reluctantly endorsing the March on Washington, but tasked his brother and attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy, with coordinating with the organizers to ensure all security precautions were taken. In addition, the civil rights leaders decided to end the march at the Lincoln Memorial instead of the Capitol, so as not to make members of Congress feel as if they were under siege.
READ MORE: Why MLK's Right-Hand Man, Bayard Rustin, Was Nearly Written Out of History
Who Was at the March on Washington?

Officially called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the historic gathering took place on August 28, 1963. Some 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, and more than 3,000 members of the press covered the event.

Fittingly, Randolph led off the day's diverse array of speakers, closing his speech with the promise that "We here today are only the first wave. When we leave, it will be to carry the civil rights revolution home with us into every nook and cranny of the land, and we shall return again and again to Washington in ever growing numbers until total freedom is ours."

Other speakers followed, including Rustin, NAACP president Roy Wilkins, John Lewis of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC), civil rights veteran Daisy Lee Bates and actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. The march also featured musical performances from the likes of Marian Anderson, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Mahalia Jackson.

MLK's 'I Have a Dream' Speech

King agreed to speak last, as all the other presenters wanted to speak earlier, figuring news crews would head out by mid-afternoon. Though his speech was scheduled to be four minutes long, he ended up speaking for 16 minutes, in what would become one of the most famous orations of the civil rights movement-and of human history.

Though it has become known as the "I Have a Dream" speech, the famous line wasn't actually part of King's planned remarks that day. After leading into King's speech with the classic spiritual "I've Been 'Buked, and I've Been Scorned," gospel star Mahalia Jackson stood behind the civil rights leader on the podium.

At one point during his speech, she called out to him, "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin, tell 'em about the dream!" referring to a familiar theme he had referenced in earlier speeches.

Departing from his prepared notes, King then launched into the most famous part of his speech that day: "And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream." From there, he built to his dramatic ending, in which he announced the tolling of the bells of freedom from one end of the country to the other.

"And when this happens...we will be able to speed up that day when all God's children, Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'"
READ MORE: 7 Things You May Not Know About MLK's 'I Have a Dream' Speech
Sources

Kenneth T. Walsh, Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House.
JFK, A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington, White House Historical Association.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Struggle.

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Bramhall Cartoons for August 2013 - NY Daily News

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The March on Washington was a political rally organized by many civil rights and religious groups that took place on August 28, 1963. The goal was to point out the political and social challenges, such as fairness in jobs and salary, that African Americans continued to face all across the country. Over 200,000 black and white Americans united to protest together. Throughout the day there were a number of songs, prayers, and speeches, including Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.