The foot soldiers were on a “freedom high,” Young recalls. “They wanted to keep on marching, they wanted to march from Birmingham to Washington,” he said. And march they did, in the nation ...

On August 28, 1963, approximately 250,000 people from all over the country gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to protest racial discrimination and injustice. The 1963 March on ...

But the official high temperature in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, the actual date of the march, was listed in the next day’s editions of The Washington Post as 83 degrees. That is not ...

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a critical ... By 1962, unemployment rates among African Americans were high, with few opportunities for upward mobility. Systemic ...

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march was the brainchild of longtime civil rights activist and labor ...

I was 32 when I helped plan the March on Washington — officially the March ... was happening to Black Americans in their name. And a high percentage of those white attendees at the March were ...

The foot soldiers were on a “freedom high,” Young recalls. “They wanted to keep on marching, they wanted to march from Birmingham to Washington,” he said. And march they did, in the nation ...