Southern Poverty Law Center: Remembering 'The Dream,' 57 Years Later
August 29, 2020
August 29, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Aug. 29 -- The Southern Poverty Law Center issued the following news on Aug. 28:
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom drew some 250,000 people to the nation's capital in a clarion call for racial justice. The event, culminating with Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, pressured the administration of President John F. Kennedy to initiate a federal civil rights bill that his successor, Lyndon B. Joh . . .
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom drew some 250,000 people to the nation's capital in a clarion call for racial justice. The event, culminating with Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, pressured the administration of President John F. Kennedy to initiate a federal civil rights bill that his successor, Lyndon B. Joh . . .