Before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 people, a group of civil rights activists spent a summer planning an event many didn’t want to happen.
Tracing the March on Washington Back to Where It Began, in Harlem
Black People Civil Rights Movement (1954-68) Clarence B. Jones Congress of Racial Equality Courtland Cox Demonstrations, Protests and Riots Harlem (Manhattan, NY) Jini Kilgore Cockroft Joyce Ladner Kennedy, John Fitzgerald King, Martin Luther Jr Lynn Kilgore Hendy National Assn for the Advancement of Colored People National Urban League Nineteen Hundred Sixties Norman Hill Norton, Eleanor Holmes Patricia Worthy Rachelle Horowitz Randolph, A Philip Rustin, Bayard Segregation and Desegregation Southern Christian Leadership Conference Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Velma Hill Washington (DC)
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