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__.MARCH ON WASHINGTON. __

The march on Washington was held on August 28, 1963. It was here that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was there to give his famous I have A dream Speech.Over 200,000 both black and white met at the Lincoln monument at 11:00 in the morning and got finished at 4:20 in the afternoon. The population heard a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. and another by John Lewis the leader of the student non violent coordinating committee gave a speech form CORE's point of veiw. It was one of the most orderly non violent acts to end segregation yet it was also gave more effectiveness. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of many of the civil rights movements. . It was this March that helped the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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2,000 - buses, 21 - special trains, 10 - chartered airliners, 200,000 - number of people there (police view), 300,000 - number of people there (leaders of march view). It was the 100th - Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.The people there were 80% Black and 20% White. It was the Largest Civil Rights Demonstration in History.

It was based on Gandhi's peaceful protest in India.