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 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, 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 ...

In 1939, the high-profile Black singer ... barring her from entering Washington’s segregated Constitutional Hall. More than 20 years later, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ...

At the March on Washington, where thousands gathered on ... “I was a freshman in high school in New York when I heard the speech. I wasn’t here, which would have been phenomenal.

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 ...