Thousands are gathered in Washington DC to commemorate the 1963 civil rights March on Washington and in ... marches in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and against racism and police ...

[New York Times] 4. It saved the civil rights movement Focusing on the March on Washington's "tangible accomplishments" misses "the most important consequence of the march," says Michael Wenger at ...

Deeply involved in the planning of the 1963 March on Washington, Lewis at age 23 ... An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s (New York: Bantam Books, 1990 ...

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march was the brainchild of longtime civil rights activist and labor ...

An oral history of the March on Washington: http://j.mp/1feuQK3 John Lewis, Eleanor Holmes Norton and others relive the pivotal moment of the Civil Rights Movement ...

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement ... rights in the US until the March on Washington later that year ...

In 1963, a quarter of a million people marched on Washington to highlight racial injustice and to put pressure on Congress to pass Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill. The march was made up of both ...

and the civil rights movement. Initially scornful ... a modern-day "Uncle Tom," and his march, where King gave his celebrated speech, just a "farce on Washington." The "white man pays Reverend ...