Civil rights leaders gathered beneath the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Standing L-R: Matthew Ahmann (Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice), Rabbi Joachim Prinz, John Lewis (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC] leader), Eugene Carson Blake (Protestant minister), Floyd McKissick (Congress of Racial Equality [CORE] leader), and Walter Reuther (labor union leader). Sitting L-R: Whitney Young (National Urban League Executive Director), Cleveland Robinson (Chairman of the Demonstration Committee), Asa Philip Randolph (labor union leader), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Roy Wilkins (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] leader).
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Location: Lincoln Memorial, Washington, , USA.
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