When 16-year-old Joan Battle Valentine got word that there was a major march for jobs and freedom occurring in Washington, D.C., she knew she had to go. The native New Yorker, now 73, was a member of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walter Naegle and Bayard Rustin.Courtesy of Walter Naegle Bayard Rustin was a civil rights leader who organized the 1963 March on ...

In 1963, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton was in law school, and volunteering in Mississippi for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, when she got a phone call. “It was actually ...

Sixty years ago, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom inspired more than 250,000 people to gather for a public demonstration — at the time, one of the biggest marches in the country’s history.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — As thousands of marchers made their way to the nation’s capital in August 1963 for what was officially billed as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Maria Varela ...

Archival documents from the American Jewish Archives JCRC Collection of 1963's 'March on Cincinnati.' The March on Washington, D.C., in 1963 brought some 250,000 people to the Lincoln Memorial to ...

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march was the brainchild of longtime civil rights activist and labor ...

FILE - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. (AP Photo, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The last part ...

Everyone remembers Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which took place 60 years ago this August. But what people may not recall ...

Editor's note: This story was first published on jacksonville.com on Aug. 24, 2013. As time passes, history often simplifies or even distorts events. Christopher Columbus did sail the ocean blue, but ...