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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.

In 1963, labor leader Asa Philip Randolph and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin began to plan the March on Washington. The event was to take place on Aug. 28 and

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.

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.

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.