This is the fourth in a five-part radio series focusing on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Empowered by the march and stirring speeches from civic leaders and Hollywood actors, marchers pledged to return home to fight for civil and economic rights. Yet it would be another year before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. Read the full description.
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Forty years ago, thousands of Americans made their way to Washington D.C. for a civil rights demonstration like no other before it: The March for Jobs and Freedom. Many recall the March as the event where Dr. Martin Luther King proclaimed I Have A Dream. But it was much more. Emboldened by the stirring speeches, marchers pledged to return home to fight for civil and economic rights. Yet it would be another year before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. In this the fourth of a five part series from WGBH Radio Boston, independent producer Phillip Martin takes us into the immediate aftermath of this monumental event.
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