28 August 1963
Civil rights organizingBook sources
March on Washington links racial freedom and economic justice
Washington, D.C.; civil rights and labor coalition
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought a mass interracial demonstration to the capital. Its demands connected desegregation and voting rights with employment and economic security. The official program documents a coalition whose agenda extended beyond the best-known speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Context / qualification
The march supported legislative and economic demands; it did not itself enact them. Its coalition included disagreements over strategy and language, including changes to John Lewis’s planned address.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 17, pp. 457–458; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- National Archives: official program for the March on Washington ↗