It’s been 60 years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Nearly 300,000 people flocked to the Lincoln Memorial on a hot August day to hear Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his iconic “I Have A Dream” speech.
An event takes place on Saturday in Washington to commemorate the ideals and events that fueled that 1963 demonstration. One of those events was the Birmingham Children’s Crusade that took place a few months prior.
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