The speech of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial was the grand finale of the August 28,1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". The march, led by union leader A. Philip Randolph and organizer Bayard Rustin, drew 200.000 supporters, 50.000 of them white. They included clergy of every faith, students, blue-collar and white-collar workera and celebrities.
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