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Sixty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, many who participated feel racism still exists
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Sixty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, many who participated feel racism still exists
The draft on view at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture was produced a few hours before King took to the podium
"My thought has been since the march, (that) we were all the same. ... That still comes to mind how everybody came together. Today we can still do that."
At 23, he was the march’s youngest speaker, and he navigated one of its trickiest compromises.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a new day — on Aug. 28, 1963. That day brought a tremendous turning point for civil rights.