On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for the political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. ...

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