Who were the women organizing the March on Washington?
On the anniversary of the March on Washington and MLK's famous speech, we turn our attention and appreciation to the woman activists who made the day possible.
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'I witnessed the best of America': remembering the March on Washington 60 years on | Civil rights movement
Participants and organisers recall the critical role of women, Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech
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Tracing the March on Washington Back to Where It Began, in Harlem
Before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 people, a group of civil rights activists spent a summer planning an event many didn’t want to happen.
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Opinion: This single day defined the decade that transformed America
No major civil rights legislation passed in 1963, but it was the most important year in the decade that transformed America, writes historian Peniel E. Joseph, and no day was more defining of that year (and thus that decade) than the August 28, 1963 March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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'BET News Presents: America in Black': Commemorating the Historic March on Washington with Tenn. State Rep. Justin J. Pearson, PJ Morton and More | News
The season finale of the monthly news magazine premieres on August 28.
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