On this day 50 years ago, a sea of marchers carrying signs that read “We Demand Voting rights Now” and “End Segregated Rules in Public Schools” blanketed the National mall in Washington D.C.
What’s now become one of the most significant events within the civil rights movements, the March on Washington is a half-century old.
And the I Have A Dream speech given Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, has become symbolic.
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