March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (U.S. National Park Service)
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t was the largest gathering for civil rights of its time. An estimated 250,000 people attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, arriving in Washington, D.C. by planes, trains, cars, and buses from all over the country.

August 28 is the anniversary of the March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom in 1963. This march is most famous for Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech. A quarter of a million people marched on Washington in order to pressure the government into passing laws that would end legal discrimination based on race. Essentially, making the human rights so vaunted in the US apply to more than just white men.

This protest scared the regime enough to pass new Civil Rights Legislation the following year. The story for Martin Luther King is not as happy however. The secret police began illegaly wiretapping his phones. He was assassinated in 1968 under mysterious circumstances. A 1999 trial found the US regime guilty of conspiring to assassinate Dr. King. His family was awarded $100.