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August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation’s capital. Stanley Tretick’s photographs depict the organizers and program speakers A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mathew Ahmann, Whitney Young, Floyd McKissick, John Lewis, Walter Reuther, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, and Eugene Carson Blake as they led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom culminating with Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
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