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I need help with March on Washington 1963?

I need to know:

-What happened on August 28, 1963?

-Who attended the event?

-What rallied the people to march?

-What happened during the event?

-What was the outcome of the event?

thanks a bunch!!

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On August 28, 1963 there was a March on Washington. There were approximately 250,000 people who marched along side Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, A. Phillip Randolf, Ray Wilkins, and Whitney Young Jr. All these people has different motives. They marched for their civil liberties, the ending to racial segregation in public schools, protection against police brutality, and the passing of a law that stopped racial discrimination in public areas. During the March these men said their famous speeches. The results of the March on Washington were civil rights bills. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed after John F. Kennedy’s death. This Act banned racial discrimination in public ficilities and in voting rights.
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March On Washington- 1963

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/marchonwashington/

In the spring and summer of 1963 the events in Birmingham inspired a wave of demonstrations elsewhere, more extensive than all that had come before. Almost a thousand actions were mounted in over a hundred southern cities, resulting in over twenty thousand arrests. On June 19 President Kennedy sent Congress the promised civil rights bill, which offered federal protection to African Americans seeking to vote, to shop, to eat out, and to be educated on equal terms. More……

http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/washington.asp

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwashingtonM.htm

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/marchonwashington.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom

http://www.npr.org/news/specials/march40th/

http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/marchonwashington/a/marchonwash1963.htm

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