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2023 60th Anniversary March. On August 26, 2023, a march was held in Washington D.C on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. Organizers include Martin Luther King III, his wife and Drum Major Institute president Arndrea Waters King, daughter Yolanda and National Action Network leader Rev. Al Sharpton.
The 60th anniversary March on Washington event is convened by the Kings’ Drum Major Institute and the National Action Network. WASHINGTON (AP) — Martin Luther King III, along with his wife ...
Decades later, an event to mark the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington is scheduled this Saturday with the theme “Not a Commemoration, a Continuation.” While the 1963 demonstration ...
Aug. 28 marked the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a day when around 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to protest ...
The Poor People's Campaign, or Poor People's March on Washington, was a 1968 effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States.It was organized by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of King's assassination in April 1968.
Thousands converged Saturday on the National Mall for the 60th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, saying a country that remains riven by racial inequality has yet to ...
The March on Washington Film Festival features film, first-person accounts, scholarship, and the performing and visual arts to share stories based on the civil rights movement. Description [ edit ] The flagship festival was founded in 2013 in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom . [1]
T’Kyrra Terrell, 6, who her grandmother says has been marching and protesting since she was 2, poses for a portrait on her way to the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln ...