On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million people marched to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to protest racial inequality.
Mahalia Jackson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and others led the crowd in song before speeches by John Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders.
📸: Marchers with signs at the March on Washington, 1963 (Marion S. Trikosko/Library of Congress)
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