Program for the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom"

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A program for the March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. The program is printed in black ink on one sheet of white paper, folded to form four pages total. The first (cover) page begins with the “Lincoln Memorial Program” listing the order of events and speakers, beginning with Marian Anderson singing the National Anthem and ending with Remarks by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “The Pledge” by A. Philip Randolph, and a Benediction by Dr. Benjamin E. Mays. At the bottom, printed in large, bold type is “WE SHALL OVERCOME.” The second (interior) page has a “Statement by the heads of the ten organizations calling for discipline in connection with the Washington March of August 28, 1963.” The third page has a numbered list of the ten demands of the march, from comprehensive civil rights legislation to a federal “Fair Employment Standards Act.

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