Knowra March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom A mass demonstration held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963, pressing for civil rights, economic justice, and federal action against racial discrimination.
I Have a Dream : A speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. King’s address became the march’s best-known public statement.
March on Washington Movement : A 1941 campaign led by A. Philip Randolph that threatened a mass march to demand an end to discrimination in defense industries. It established the march tactic and jobs-and-equality agenda decades earlier.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 : A federal law prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in several areas of public life. The march helped build the political pressure surrounding the legislation, though it did not cause it alone.
Million Man March : A 1995 gathering of Black men in Washington, D.C., centered on unity, responsibility, and community action. It shared the capital’s symbolic setting but differed in participants, aims, and organizing coalition.
Bayard Rustin : An American civil-rights organizer who directed the logistics of the 1963 March on Washington. His planning coordinated the event’s transportation, staging, and mass participation.
Civil Rights Movement : A broad movement opposing racial segregation and discrimination and seeking equal rights for African Americans. The 1963 demonstration brought national attention to the movement’s demands.
Voting Rights Act of 1965 : A federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting and authorizing federal oversight in jurisdictions with a history of disenfranchisement. The march’s call for voting rights anticipated the campaign that produced this law.
Poor People's Campaign : A 1968 campaign for economic justice that organized poor people to press the federal government in Washington, D.C. It extended the march’s economic-justice emphasis through a later, sustained campaign.
A. Philip Randolph : An American labor and civil-rights leader who proposed a mass march on Washington to demand jobs and equality. Randolph’s decades-old organizing vision helped bring the march into being.
Big Six (civil rights leaders) : A group of six prominent civil-rights leaders who helped organize the 1963 march. Their organizations formed the central leadership coalition behind the event.
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