March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brings more than 200,000 people to Washington DC in support of racial equality and justice. Larger than any other protest demonstration since the 1930s, it pushed the civil rights movement into the center of national politics. The lead organizer of the March was Bayard Rustin, a Quaker advocate of Gandhian non-violence whose homosexuality was used by opponents of racial justice as a way to discredit the March.

1963-08-28