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Also Known As March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Date August 28, 1963
Location United States • Washington, D.C.
Context American civil rights movement

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Martin Luther King, Jr., delivering “I Have a Dream”
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Participants in the March on Washington, D.C., in August 1963.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education
May 17, 1954
Where the Greensboro sit-in happened
sit-in movement
1960 - 1961
Freedom Riders
Freedom Rides
May 4, 1961 - September 1961
March on Washington
March on Washington
August 28, 1963
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act
1964
police in Watts, 1966
Watts Riots of 1965
August 11, 1965 - August 16, 1965
Mildred and Richard Loving
Loving v. Virginia
June 12, 1967
Poor People's Campaign
Poor People’s Campaign
June 19, 1968

Key People

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American religious leader and civil-rights activist
John Lewis
John Lewis
American civil rights leader and politician
A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph
American civil-rights activist
Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin
American civil-rights activist

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