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August 28, 1963 March on W Fifty years ago 250,000 protestors, black and wh to the Lincoln Memorial for Jobs and Freedom, a he 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was the largest civil rights protest held at that time, and led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was prompted by earlier Civil Rights attempts to March on Washington in the early 1940s. Presidential Executive T I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. Orders had created only limited social change affecting the livelihood and wellbeing of African-Americans. The 1940s March on Washington movement was the brainchild of A. Philip Randolph, a prolific Civil Rights activist who was the founder and chairman of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African-American organized labor union. He was also president of the Negro American Labor Council. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. In the intervening years, he began preparing for a new massive March on Washington to protest the economic disadvantage of AfricanAmericans by emphasizing the high unemployment rate, the prohibition of job promotion, and the lack of job alternatives available to African-American citizens. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a prestigious Civil Rights activist, Baptist preacher, and moral compass for America, joined the March Committee in 1963. He brought with him his non-violent plan to protest the segregation that engulfed the South as well as areas of the North. By the time of the march, August 28, 1963, the March Committee demanded free- 1963 Sit seg in d reg emo de mo atio nst ra n ns tra in e tion tio ati s ar n. ng e fac held ilit ies in B . D irm r. K ing ing ha is a m to Dr. rre Kin ste prot im d d est pri g w so uri ne rites ng d. the a "L ett er fro m Bir mi ng ha m Eu Jai ge l" Bir n wh mi e (" ile on ng Bu the ham ll") ma , a Co rch ppr nno ing ove r, d pro s th irec tes e u tor tor se of o s( bo f po publ ic th l ad ice d safe ult og ty sa s nd and for Th ch ild fire h e ren ord U.S os es ). ina . Su nc pre es are me un Cou co r ns t rul titu es tio tha na l. t Birm ing ha m' Ala ss ba eg ord ma reg ati "s ered Go on t ref andi inte v. Ge ng gra or us De ing tio ge in fed partm ent the n of C. W r s Wa erali ent ance choo the allac e lla zes off lh Un to the ce the icia bla ous iver tries Ne rem ls. ck e d sity t gro Pr oo st o Ala o os stu ves h bam eside uden r" a f Ala top t a h n de i n b nts msel Nat t Jo ts an d pe ama e co f f ion hn dJ . rso by urtrom al u Gu F. Ke stic nally blo e n ck ard, ned ing an yt the d G hen en ov. tra nc eo f Source: Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta, Georgia March/April April 16 6 July 2013 DSEA ACTION! May 3, 4, 5 May 20 June 11 www.d