https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc Made with a wish on a star en-us 2019-10-23 12:10:23 UTC 2023-02-27 07:20:36 UTC hello@padlet.com rafalko_ryley https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401605053 1. March was for Jobs and Freedom.
2. The event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation.
3. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have A Dream” speech.]]> 2019-10-23 17:23:36 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401605053 mcginnis_connor https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401605959 2: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.


3 The March was organized in less than 3 months.]]> 2019-10-23 17:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401605959 lamare_jacob https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606260 #1/ The March On Washington took place on August 28th 1963 in Washington D.C. and was attended by approx. 250,000 people, including profound celebrity, Sammy Davis Jr.
#2/The March helped put forth effort for the passing of the Civil Rights Act Of 1964 and the future, Voting Act of 1965.
#3/The March was not organized by Martin Luther King jr., but by two men named A.Phillip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, who were the original people who brought the civil rights, labor, and religious organizations together for this specific March. ]]> 2019-10-23 17:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606260 gregory_erin https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606368 1.) The march was organized by the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement
2.) On the 50th anniversary of the march, one of the 1963 organizers, John Lewis, now a congressman addressed a crowd on the steps of Lincoln memorial.]]> 2019-10-23 17:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606368 mull_alessandro https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606426 1.The march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans
2. The March took place on August 28th in 1963 at Washington D.C
3. Over 200,000 people were in attendance of the march, including: Philip Randolph, Whitney M. Young Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, Roy Wilkins and John Lewis]]> 2019-10-23 17:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606426 drapeau_anna https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606430 1. civil rights leaders  protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights 
2. helped create a new national understanding of the problems of racial and economic injustice]]> 2019-10-23 17:25:26 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606430 https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606597 * The march was organized by the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement: A. Philip Randolph, Whitney M. Young Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, Roy Wilkins and John Lewis. Bayard Rustin was chief organizer of the march.

* More than 200,000 people participated in the march to focus attention on civil rights and the need to create a level playing field for American workers

*  Law enforcement included some 5,000 police officers and National Guardsmen.

]]> 2019-10-23 17:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606597 rostak_reagan https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606962 1. the march was led by martin Luther king jr
2. The marchers wanted the federal minimum wage raised nearly 75 percent, from $1.15 an hour to $2.00 an hour.
3.President Kennedy Didn't Support The March On Washington. ]]> 2019-10-23 17:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401606962 labombard_zachary https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401607195 2.It had been powerful, yet peaceful and orderly beyond anyone's expectations]]> 2019-10-23 17:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401607195 lapier_carson https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401607411 1.On 28 August 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital.                                     2.Was for Jobs and Freedom, political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress. ]]> 2019-10-23 17:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401607411 myers_kaden https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401607425 1.
 "More than 200,000 people participated in the march to focus attention on civil rights and the need to create a level playing field for American workers." 
2. 
President Kennedy Didn’t Support The March On Washington.
3.]]> 2019-10-23 17:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401607425 spoonerlarabee_isaac https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401607478 1. Some of the most memorable parts of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech – including the ‘I Have a Dream” segment – were not in the original draft. He ad-libbed them on stage.

2. Between 70% and 80% of the marchers were black

3. Black militants, such as Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, condemned the March for placating the white majority.]]> 2019-10-23 17:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401607478 lincoln_emma https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401607551 There's a postage stamp in remembrance in the march

]]> 2019-10-23 17:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401607551 brienza_alex https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401608700 1. The march was extensively covered by the media, with live international television coverage.

2.Law enforcement included some 5,000 police officers

3. Civil Rights Act guaranteed equal voting right

]]> 2019-10-23 17:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401608700 https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401609091 King stands with Rabbi Joachim Prinz by his side.]]> 2019-10-23 17:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401609091 strack_madison https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401609361 Some 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, and more than 3,000 members of the press covered the event.
President John F. Kennedy met with civil rights leaders before the march, voicing his fears that the event would end in violence.]]> 2019-10-23 17:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401609361 butler_jack https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401634306 1. The "I Have a Dream" phrase of MLK Jr.'s speech was never initially intended to be in the speech; Mahalia Jackson called him to "tell about the dream" referred to in previous speeches.
2. MLK Jr. was the last to speak during the March on Washington, and had scheduled his speech to be only four minutes long, however it became extended to sixteen minutes
3. The final paragraph of MLK Jr's speech is perhaps the most famous portion of said speech]]> 2019-10-23 18:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/murphy_jeannine/6sgmm60v8hhc/wish/401634306