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- Record Album, "March on Washington: The Official Album," 1963 - More than 250,000 civil rights advocates -- both African American and white -- showed up at this peaceful march on August 28, 1963, to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. This LP record includes speeches by ten Civil Rights leaders heard at the Lincoln Memorial that day.
- August 28, 1963
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Record Album, "March on Washington: The Official Album," 1963
More than 250,000 civil rights advocates -- both African American and white -- showed up at this peaceful march on August 28, 1963, to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. This LP record includes speeches by ten Civil Rights leaders heard at the Lincoln Memorial that day.
- Button, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963 - More than 250,000 civil rights advocates showed up at this peaceful march to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. Television viewers nationwide watched African Americans and whites march together, united behind a common cause. Songs and speeches at this march included Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
- August 28, 1963
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Button, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963
More than 250,000 civil rights advocates showed up at this peaceful march to support unity, jobs, and a new Civil Rights bill being proposed by President Kennedy. Television viewers nationwide watched African Americans and whites march together, united behind a common cause. Songs and speeches at this march included Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
- "Life" Magazine, March 19, 1965 -
- March 19, 1965
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"Life" Magazine, March 19, 1965
- Picketers in Support of Hiring Black Workers for Ford Motor Company, 1942 -
- August 20, 1942
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Picketers in Support of Hiring Black Workers for Ford Motor Company, 1942
- Picketers in Support of Hiring Black Workers for Ford Motor Company, 1942 -
- August 20, 1942
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Picketers in Support of Hiring Black Workers for Ford Motor Company, 1942
- Students Run to Keep up with Sheriff Jim Clark in a 2.5 Mile Forced March out of Selma, Alabama, February 10, 1965 -
- February 10, 1965
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Students Run to Keep up with Sheriff Jim Clark in a 2.5 Mile Forced March out of Selma, Alabama, February 10, 1965
- Freedom Marchers on the First Night of the Journey from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 21, 1965 -
- March 21, 1965
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Freedom Marchers on the First Night of the Journey from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 21, 1965
- Voting Rights Marchers, Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965 - Carl Benkert, Jr. (1922-2010) was an industrial designer from Michigan who traveled to Selma, Alabama in March of 1965 to participate in the Voting Rights Movement. He brought his camera and tape recorders to document his experience in Alabama, capturing images and songs over the course of ten days. Benkert's recordings were released in an album later that same year.
- March 25, 1965
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Voting Rights Marchers, Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965
Carl Benkert, Jr. (1922-2010) was an industrial designer from Michigan who traveled to Selma, Alabama in March of 1965 to participate in the Voting Rights Movement. He brought his camera and tape recorders to document his experience in Alabama, capturing images and songs over the course of ten days. Benkert's recordings were released in an album later that same year.
- "Ebony," May 1965 - Since 1945, <em>Ebony</em> has focused upon issues, personalities, and interests geared to the African-American market. During the civil rights era of the 1950s and 60s, the magazine regularly kept Americans apprised of the movement for equality. This cover features the 1965 March on Montgomery. This nonviolent demonstration helped secure voting rights legislation for all American citizens.
- May 01, 1965
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"Ebony," May 1965
Since 1945, Ebony has focused upon issues, personalities, and interests geared to the African-American market. During the civil rights era of the 1950s and 60s, the magazine regularly kept Americans apprised of the movement for equality. This cover features the 1965 March on Montgomery. This nonviolent demonstration helped secure voting rights legislation for all American citizens.
- "Life" Magazine, March 26, 1965 -
- March 26, 1965
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"Life" Magazine, March 26, 1965