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The original march on Washington
In 1941, Philip Randolph attempted to organize a march on washington to protest an African American man being excluded from World War II defence jobs, but President Roosevelt met with Randolph and passed a bill against discrimination of workers and created the FEPC. SO, in return the march got called off. -
Congress desovled FEPC
In 1946 congress dissolved all funding to the FEPC program. -
Another planned march on Washington
Randolph attempted to organize another march with new civil rights Icon Martin Luther King Jr. along with the assistance of the NAACP -
A march at the Lincoln Memorial
in early May, around 25,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to remember the third anniversary of the Brown v. the board of education ruling. -
Attacks in Alabama
In may of 1963, there were a string of violent attacks on protestors in Birmingham, Alabama, and another mass protest was storming on the horizon. -
Meeting with John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy met with civil rights leaders and relayed to them that the march may be not at the right time, but Randolph and King Jr. insisted the march shall go on. -
The March on Washington
On august 13th, 1963, more than 200,000 people marched to the Washington monument in search for jobs and equal opportunity. There was also the "I Have a Dream" speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that would go down in history.