Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walter Naegle and Bayard Rustin.Courtesy of Walter Naegle Bayard Rustin was a civil rights leader who organized the 1963 March on ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLOMA, Mich. (WOOD) — Over 60 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial ...
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march was the brainchild of longtime civil rights activist and labor ...
A new film finally spotlights Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington Based on a True Story Zachary Clary | Historian, Vanderbilt University The March ...
Forty years ago this week, thousands of Americans made their way to Washington, D.C., for a civil rights demonstration like no other before it. In the first of a five-part series from the WGBH archive ...
When 16-year-old Joan Battle Valentine got word that there was a major march for jobs and freedom occurring in Washington, D.C., she knew she had to go. The native New Yorker, now 73, was a member of ...
Sixty years ago, in the summer of 1963, a four-story town house on West 130th Street in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood became the headquarters for what was then the largest civil rights event in ...
Producer Phillip Martin talks with preachers and teachers, lawyers and laborers who jammed the highways leading to Washington, D.C., for the historic March on Washington. Forty years have passed, and ...
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