Why 60 Years After March on Washington America is Just as Racist
<p>OnAugust 28, 1963, over a quarter-million people attended <em>The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom</em>, gathering near the Lincoln Memorial. This event showcased the strength and solidarity of the civil rights movement, a cruscade that openly challenged Black Americans' second-class citizenship cemented throughout the Jim Crow era. Nearly a hundred years after the Civil War, inequitable conditions persisted. Black people were forced to sit on the back of public buses, drink from separate water fountains, attend separate schools, and be deprived of equitable access to jobs and property ownership. Leading up to the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act was stalled in Congress, much to the dismay of Black Americans.</p>
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