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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 28, 2023

On Aug. 28, 1963, more than a quarter million people walked in the historic “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” — the same march that saw the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Now, 60 years later, the march was recreated Saturday to highlight the fight still ahead for equality. The 1963 march helped lead to a host of new laws, including the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Read more about the genesis of the march and its legacy from The Hill, and what current day organizers hoped to achieve with Saturday’s event from the Associated Press.