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On August 28, 1963, about a quarter-million people participated in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom gathering near the Lincoln Memorial. The march 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.

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an American, civil rights activist, and socialist politician. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly African-American labor union.

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an American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr."

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a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s.

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The Supreme Court of the United States held that Jim Crow laws that segregated public school students on the basis of race were unconstitutional.

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“nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.”

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https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/civil-rights-era.html
https://www.sutori.com/item/political-cartoon-showing-mlk-jr-and-abraham-lincoln-fist-bumping https://www.biography.com/activist/a-philip-randolph
https://americanhistory.si.edu/changing-america-emancipation-proclamation-1863-and-march-washington-1963/1963/leaders-march
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington

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How The Movement Began

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MLK and the March On Washington: How The Movement Began | TIME

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Even though they lived far apart in time, they believe all me where created equal.

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the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

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Speech by MLK in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. This inspired many activists to keep on working, because they were almost there.

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planning one for freedom, the two groups decided to merge their efforts into one mass protest.

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AUG 28, 1963

More than 200,000 people, black and white, participated in this march.