The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D...
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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (category Freedom Riders)
On August 28, 1963, Mulholland attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. She rode to Washington, D.C., with Moody, the Rev. Ed King, and...
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Big Six (activists) (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United...
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protests March Against Fear March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Memphis sanitation strike Million Man March 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March: Justice...
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Cleveland Robinson (category Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union people)
American labor organizer and civil rights activist. He was a key figure in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, for which he acted as the Chairman...
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Retrieved March 26, 2017. "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". National Park Service. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved March 26...
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No Name in the Street (section The March on Washington)
Eldridge Cleaver, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The book also covers the Algerian War and Albert Camus' take on it. Baldwin recounts...
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King and his supporters, partly a practice run of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Due to the greater size of the March on Washington, the...
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Steve Schapiro (category Articles needing additional references from March 2018)
known for his photojournalism work and for having captured key moments of the civil rights movement such as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and...
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Civil rights movements (redirect from Movements for civil rights)
Crusade and the Selma to Montgomery marches, another illustrious event of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in...
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Bernard Garrett (section Early life and education)
joined Martin Luther King Jr.'s August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Garrett started and ran a cleaning business in Texas. In 1945, the...
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Damien Leake (category Articles with bare URLs for citations from March 2022)
and ventriloquist. On August 28, 1963, just days after his eleventh birthday, Leake joined his parents attending the March on Washington for Jobs and...
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George Malloy (section Life and career)
the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Malloy is heard on film soundtracks. For the last thirty-one years of his career...
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topics such as Green Jobs, Appalachian History, and political organizing. October 2 – One Nation Working Together March for Jobs, Peace and Justice. Rally at...
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over a long distance March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a march that took place on August 28, 1963 March for Life (Washington, D.C.), annual event...
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white donors in business and philanthropy. It successfully arranged the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with the Kennedy administration...
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November 2022. "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 27 November 2022. Washington, Mailing Address:...
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Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. Crosby, Stills & Nash performed the song on the first episode of The...
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I Have a Dream (category 1963 in Washington, D.C.)
activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil...
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Walter Naegle (section Education and early career)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He and Sally Ride's partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy, were the first LGBT partners to accept the award for their late...
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historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 before 250,000 people. Aretha Franklin recorded an uptempo alternate version of the song on her 1972...
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and "Blowin' in the Wind" at the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, best remembered for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech...
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Mathew Ahmann (category Deaths from cancer in Washington, D.C.)
joined the "Big Six" to organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He gave a speech during the march that preceded the "I Have a Dream" speech...
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Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. (category United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit cases)
Have a Dream", originally delivered at the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The court ruled that King's delivery of the speech was...
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28 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Musical performers include Mahalia Jackson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary and Marian Anderson...
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Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (redirect from Washington D.C. reflecting pool)
Watch and Freedom Vigil and the singing of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." On August 28, 2013, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...
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Bayard Rustin (category Freedom Riders)
socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin was the principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Rustin worked in...
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Stanley Tretick (category Articles with unsourced statements from March 2015)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Griot Museum of Black History, St. Louis MO (March 2012), And Freedom For All: The March on Washington for Jobs...
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National Black Justice Coalition (category 2003 establishments in Washington, D.C.)
HIV/AIDS On the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the organization is honoring the courage and legacy of the march's chief...
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Donnie McClurkin (section Radio and television)
McClurkin was disinvited from the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom as his ex-gay status was seen as disruptive. In 2015 he...
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