WASHINGTON (WCSC) - A massive demonstration took place in the nation’s capital on Aug. 28, 1963, in support of civil rights for Black Americans. Nearly a quarter of a million people attended the ...

The 62nd anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom passed kind of quietly on Aug. 28. The Rev. Al Sharpton led a protest march through Manhattan’s Financial District in an attempt to ...

(The Root) — In the opening line of his “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. predicted that the March on ...

Harold Bragg, a retired Coloma High School history teacher, was at the March on Washington in 1963.

(The Root) — “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” That, of course, was Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who’d run on a platform opposing black voter registration, in a ...

History | Updated: August 28, 2023 | Originally Published: June 12, 2013 Stanley Tretick documented the demonstration in 1963, but his snapshots were hidden in a trunk, unseen by the public for ...

All the regularly scheduled flights to the nation's capitol were packed. So were the trains and buses. More than 2,000 chartered buses, 21 chartered trains and 10 chartered flights from across the ...

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 ...

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 ...