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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
August 28, 1963
August 28, 1963
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
Primary Sources on the Internet
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
- The Civil Rights Digital Library
- Documenting the American South
- Digital Schomburg (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library)
- The Library of Congress American Memory Collections
- Cornell University Library Making of America Collection
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