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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 Dealprograms. But a day before the event, President Franklin D. Rooseveltmet with Randolph and agreed to ...
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...
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 tod...
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 becom...
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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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, [1] [2] was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. [3] The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
May 10, 2013 · March on Washington. Find out how Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech became an impromptu addition to the March on Washington.
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Aug 28, 2013 · "Collective memories and historical interpretations of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom run the spectrum from liberal triumphalism to radical disillusionment.
