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Date August 28, 1963
Location Washington, D.C.
Context Civil Rights Act • March on Washington

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American religious leader and civil-rights activist
A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph
American civil-rights activist

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