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1 I Have a Dream Speech And The March on Washington

2 The plan For the March on Washington These were the people who planned it: Randolph, along with Bayard Rustin, Whitney Young of the Urban League, SNCC’s John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, and CORE’s James Farmer began planning for the march during the summer of 1963. The March Leaders

3 When and What About The “I Have a Dream Speech” The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. 250,000 people came to the” I Have a Dream Speech”. it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage.

4 Percentage of People Did you know that ¼ of the people at the March on Washington and the I Have a Dream Speech were white and the other ¾ were colored.

5 Credits Information came from www.about.com and www.americanrhetoric.com The pictures came from www.about.com and www.americanrhetoric.com

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