The date was August 28, 1963.
And the event at Washington D.C’s Lincoln Memorial would become a historic day for so many reasons.
Mahalia Jackson sang two hymns before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took to the podium at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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