View of participants in the March on Washington, some with America flags, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. More than two-hundred thousand people participated in the demonstration.
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Large crowds showing support for civil rights movement march in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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Crowds shown in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for civil rights, August 28, 1963.
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Edith Lee-Payne of Detroit celebrates her 12th birthday by attending the March on Washington with her mother on Aug. 28, 1963.
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A crowd gathers on the National Mall in front of the Capitol area to demonstrate for the civil rights movement in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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Members of the Louisville contingent participating in the 1963 March on Washington arrive by train in the nation’s capital.
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Large crowds gather at the Washington Monument and around the reflecting pool to demonstrate for the civil rights movement in Washington, D.C., on August 28,1963.
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The top of the Washington Monument and part of a U.S. flag are reflected in the sunglasses of Austin Clinton Brown, 9, of Gainesville, Ga., as he poses at the Capitol where he joins others in the March on Washington on Aug. 29, 1963.
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Crowds shown in front of the reflecting pool at the mall during the March on Washington for civil rights, August 28, 1963.
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Kathleen Johnson of Newark, N.J. has a laugh with unidentified members of the crowd assembled near the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March On Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. Mrs. Johnson fell into the reflecting pool near the memorial while trying to take a photograph of the area.
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High-angle view of the massive crowd at the Washington Monument and Reflecting Pool during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. The march and rally provided the setting for the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech.
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A group of Nashville resident board a couple of buses on Aug. 27, 1963, at the First Baptist Church downtown for a trip to Washington D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” They were part of 200,000 that massed before the Abraham Lincoln Memorial and hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
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More than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington demonstrations. The throng marched to the Mall and listened to Civil Rights leaders, clergyman and others addressed the crowd, including Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
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Rallygoers arrive in Washington, D.C., via a bus from Englewood, N.J., on August 28, 1963, to attend the March on Washington.
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Sitting on his placard with his shoes off, a civil rights marcher cooling off his bare foot on the surface of the reflecting pool near the Lincoln memorial following the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. (AP Photo)
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Large crowds gather at the Washington Monument to demonstrate for the civil rights movement in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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Large crowds gather at the Washington Monument to demonstrate for the civil rights movement in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. The march was organized to support proposed civil rights legislation and end segregation. King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, advocating nonviolent action against America’s racial inequality. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, King was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968.
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Actor Marlon Brando, right, poses with his arm around James Baldwin, author and civil rights leader, in front of the Lincoln statue at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington demonstration ceremonies which followed the mass parade. Posing with them are actors Charlton Heston, left, and Harry Belafonte. (AP Photo)
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This is a view of the March on Washington crowd made from behind the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, August 28, 1963. In the distance is the Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool.
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Rally crowds walk the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963, for the March on Washington.
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Large crowds showing support for civil rights movement march in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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Citizens in Englewood, N.J., ride a bus bound for the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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Large crowds gather near the Washington Monument to demonstrate for the civil rights movement in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963.
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President Kennedy poses August 28, 1963 at the White House with a group of leaders of the March on Washington. From left, Whitney Young, National Urban League; Dr. Martin Luther King, Christian Leadership Conference; John Lewis, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, American Jewish Congress; Dr. Eugene P. Donnaly, National Council of Churches; A. Philip Randolph, AFL-CIO vice president; Kennedy; Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers; Vice-President Johnson, rear, and Roy Wilkins, NAACP.
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People holding signs and marching during the March on Washington in 1963.
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Newspapers, torn signs and placards and general debris litters grass in Lincoln Memorial area as March on Washington demonstrators stand and sit in the area during speeches by civil rights leaders after parade to the memorial area in Washington, August 28, 1963.
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Army military policemen line up at Washington Monument grounds for duty during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. In background are some of the early arrivals for the civil rights demonstration.
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Standing singers of sit-in songs at the New Haven bus terminal on August 28, 1963 just before their departure for Washington, D.C. to take part in the civil rights march. The songbook was furnished by the Congress of Racial Equality, with co-sponsored the Connecticut contingent of over 3,000 with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Group of demonstrators stand around casket at Lincoln Memorial in Washington, August 28, 1963. The group carried placards as they pushed the casket down Constitution Avenue during the March on Washington parade.
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Workers at the Washington Monument headquarters of the March on Washington help each other pin on ÒusherÓ armbands, August 28, 1963.
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Aerial view shows March on Washington participants streaming towards the Lincoln Memorial (foreground) in the walk from the Washington Monument (background) in Washington DC on August 28, 1963. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations. More than 200.000 people participate at this rally and listen the historic “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A group of less than 100 Americans living in Israel, followed an appeal to support the anti-segregation march in Washington, an march to the American Embassy in Tel-Aviv, where a signed petition was handed by the demonstrators representatives to the acting Head of Mission. The demonstrators carried signs in English and Hebrew calling for Integration and Peaceful living side by side of Whites and Blacks. The marchers on the way through Tel-Aviv to the American Embassy at Hayarkon Street, August 28, 1963.
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A group of less than 100 Americans living in Israel, followed an appeal to support the anti-segregation march in Washington, an march to the American Embassy in Tel-Aviv, where a signed petition was handed by the demonstrators representatives to the acting Head of Mission. The demonstrators carried signs in English and Hebrew calling for Integration and Peaceful living side by side of Whites and Blacks. The marchers on the way through Tel-Aviv to the American Embassy at Hayarkon Street in Tel-Aviv, August 28, 1963.
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In this August 24, 1963, file photo Bayard Rustin points to a map showing the path of the March on Washington during a news conference at the New York City headquarters. Months before Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” declaration galvanized a quarter-million people at the 1963 March on Washington, Rustin was planning all the essential details to keep the crowd orderly and engaged. A Quaker, and a pacifist, Rustin served as chief strategist for King’s march over the objections of some leaders, but was kept mostly in the background with some organizers considering him a liability. Notably, he was gay in an era when same-sex relations were widely reviled in American society. He died in 1987, and is sometimes forgotten in civil rights history.
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FILE – The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to onlookers as he leads the 125,000 strong “Walk to Freedom” on Woodward Avenue in Detroit in 1963. From left to right in the front row are: Walter Reuther, Benjamin McFall, Dr. King, ant the Rev. C.L. Franklin.
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Large crowds gather at the Lincoln Memorial to demonstrate for the civil rights movement in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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Citizens in Englewood, N.J., ride a bus bound for the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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The huge crowd gathers in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
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