What is the name of the demonstration where more than 200,000 demonstrators marched down the Mall in Washington D. C., in August 1963 and gathered before the Lincoln Memorial to generate support for the civil rights legislation, and to dramatize the power of the growing movement, and became the greatest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history?

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Abbie Bean

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25 December, 08:10

What is the name of the demonstration where more than 200,000 demonstrators marched down the Mall in Washington D. C., in August 1963 and gathered before the Lincoln Memorial to generate support for the civil rights legislation, and to dramatize the power of the growing movement, and became the greatest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history?

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Enrique Horton · Answer 1

It was called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

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In 1963 a large crowd assembled in Lincoln Memorial to ask president Kennedy for a federal bill of rights that protected civil liberties for the African - American population. The march was a wake up - call to introduce fair employment legislations to end with any type of racial discrimination. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech "I had a dream" in order to end racism. This march resulted in the Civil Rights Act 1964 which forbade any form of racial discrimination.