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MARCH ON WASHINGTON #21

• The specific date(s) of each major event.

•August 28, 1963

•What city and state was the event sited.

•Washington D.C.

•Who were the major players involved in the event.

•Martin Luther King Jr.

•List the facts specific to each event

•Martin Luther King Jr. called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. The speech, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, the speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address

 

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