Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walter Naegle and Bayard Rustin.Courtesy of Walter Naegle Bayard Rustin was a civil rights leader who organized the 1963 March on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Martin Luther King Jr. shakes hands with members of the crowd during the March on Washington, on August 28, 1963. Bettmann Archive ...

It’s safe to say that many people in this country believe the leaders of the civil rights movement were the conceivers, organizers and deliverers of the historic Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington.

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WASHINGTON − As the preliminary program for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom came together, Anna Arnold Hedgeman noticed a glaring omission in the star-studded lineup of speakers: ...

When 16-year-old Joan Battle Valentine got word that there was a major march for jobs and freedom occurring in Washington, D.C., she knew she had to go. The native New Yorker, now 73, was a member of ...

In 1963, a quarter million marched for jobs and freedom. Today, a new generation is moved to march—in spite of a global pandemic. Alena Battle of Charlotte, North Carolina, holds her son, Tamaj ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – As thousands of marchers made their way to the nation’s capital in August 1963 for what was officially billed as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Maria Varela ...

On Friday, legions of Americans will descend on the nation’s capital resolved to take advantage of “the fierce urgency of now,” a phrase coined by Martin Luther King Jr. on the very same day in 1963.