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Marchers in DC

8/28/1963

This photograph shows participants at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, on August 28, 1963. The event brought hundreds of thousands of marchers to the National Mall in Washington, DC, to support civil rights for African Americans.

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Tags

• Washington, DC
• March
• Civil Rights
• African Americans

Additional Resources

• ARC Gallery: African Americans
• Documenting the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Decade of the Sixties