The 62nd anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom passed kind of quietly on Aug. 28. The Rev. Al Sharpton led a protest march through Manhattan’s Financial District in an attempt to ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) - A massive demonstration took place in the nation’s capital on Aug. 28, 1963, in support of civil rights for Black Americans. Nearly a quarter of a million people attended the ...

Harold Bragg, a retired Coloma High School history teacher, was at the March on Washington in 1963.

(The Root) — “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” That, of course, was Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who’d run on a platform opposing black voter registration, in a ...

(The Root) — In the opening line of his “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. predicted that the March on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, civil rights advocates began highlighting the scourge of police and vigilante violence ...

They arrived by the busload from across the country to retrace the steps taken 20 years before by those who attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was Aug. 27, 1983, and organizers ...