Large crowds gather at the Lincoln Memorial to demonstrate for civil rights in Washington, Aug. Martin Luther King gave his eloquent "I have a dream." speech to a million-thronged mall on August 28, 1963.Ĭrowds shown in front of the Washington Monument during the March on Washington for civil rights, August 28, 1963.
The crowds seen at the march on Washington, D.C.
(AP Photo/Str) - Joachim Prinz Praesident des j'uedischen Kongresses der USA, an der innerdeutschen Grenze am Potsdamer Platz in West Berlin am 27. Joachim Prinz, president of the Jewish Congress of the USA, looks across the barbed wired wall in West Berlin across to East Berlin at the Potsdamer Square, March 25, 1965. Rabbi Joachim Prinz, of Orange, N.J., President of 'The World Jewish Congress,' during a session of the Congress, in Rome, in Italy, Jan. Benjamin Mays and Martin Luther King III. Andrew Young, D-Ga., Dexter King, Bernice King, Mrs. 15, 1973 while attending commemorative services marking the birthday of her slain husband, the Rev. Coretta Scott King, third from right, leads others as she bows her head in Atlanta on Jan. Blake, 59, was elected head of the World Council of Churches (WCC) February 11, 1966, at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Philip Randolph, AFL-CIO vice president Kennedy Walter Reuther, Unidted Auto Workers Vice-President Johnson, rear, and Roy Wilkins, NAACP.Ī 1964 portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King, Christian Leadership Conference John Lewis, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee Rabbi Joachim Prinz, American Jewish Congress Dr. From left, Whitney Young, National Urban League Dr. President Kennedy poses August 28, 1963, at the White House with a group of leaders of the March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr., center with arms raised, marches along Constitution Avenue with other civil rights protestors carrying placards as they walked from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech.ĭr. The marchers will parade to the Lincoln Memorial, seen in the far background at right, where the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom will end with Dr.
This general view shows civil rights demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument grounds before noon on Aug. The pickets were protesting any slash in funds needed for the Head Start Program. Martin Luther King Jr., as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, joined a group of Mississippi pickets here on Apin front of the White House. Ralph Abernathy, who succeeded the slain Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, joined a group of Mississippi pickets here on April 25, 1968, in front of the White House. Large crowds gather at the Washington Monument to demonstrate for the civil rights movement in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The march was organized to support proposed civil rights legislation and end segregation.Ĭrowds shown in front of the reflecting pool at the mall during the March on Washington for civil rights, August 28, 1963. waves to the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in Washington.
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