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 ...

executed perfectly to put together a remarkable package for the 60 th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Planning had begun months earlier with conversations among Jack ...

March for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C. Photos of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom show a sea of people flooding the National Mall and enjoying the festive mood. More than ...

Chris Stewart is taking on a role that is becoming more familiar in the current civil rights movement, attorney for families who have lost a loved one in a police encounter. Like Attorney Benjamin ...

As chair of SNCC he coordinated voter registration and community activities of Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Deeply involved in the planning of the 1963 March on Washington, Lewis at age 23 was ...

Veterans are planning to march on Washington DC in order to defend the ... administration's proposed cuts to Social Security, federal job losses for veterans, the pardon of January 6 rioters ...