Thousands march to mark the 60th anniversary of MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech
Decades after the 1963 March on Washington, thousands again gathered in the nation's capital to declare that Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy was in jeopardy amid fresh civil rights struggles.
by Emily Olson
Aug 26, 2023
3 minutes
Six decades ago, an estimated 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech that day, on August 28, 1963, has since emerged as a paramount symbol of the push for racial and social equality.
On Saturday, tens of thousands of people gathered in that same spot to declare that dream was in jeopardy — that America had
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