How the 1963 March on Washington, featuring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I have a dream" speech, was organized.
Eunice Taylor, a professor of nursing at Owensboro Community & Technical College, was 11 years old and living in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28, 1963, when as many as 250,000 people filled the city ...
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III and his wife Arndrea Waters King lead as people participate in the March on Wall ...
Chess Jakobs' new play "The American Five" tells the story of how Martin Luther King Jr. and his closest allies planned the ...
Dr. Benjamin Chavis, president and CEO of National Newspaper Publishers Association, will help lead churches and the Black Press in a march on Wall Street Aug 28. Demonstrators will use the march to ...
Big Bethel A.M.E. church in Atlanta hosted its Social Justice Sunday to celebrate the March on Washington's 62nd anniversary. A historic church in Atlanta spent Sunday Service honoring the 62nd ...
They arrived by the busload from across the country to retrace the steps taken 20 years before by those who attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was Aug. 27, 1983, and organizers ...
Aug. 28 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1922, a New York City realty company paid $100 for the first radio commercial, on station WEAF. In 1941, Nazi German, Hungarian and Ukrainian police ...
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Why JFK Tried to Stop the March on Washington

Behind the dream was a president torn between progress and politics. This video reveals what history left out.
This week marks sixty-two years since Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph organized the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a ...
CANTON – The National Action Network of Stark/Summit County, along with Cuyahoga chapter, has chartered several buses to "The March on Wall Street" on Aug. 28 in Washington, D.C. The march's goal is a ...
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