More than 200,000 people gathered to demand civil and economic rights. The march connected racial equality to jobs, housing, and labor, and drew on a longer Black freedom struggle against slavery’s afterlives and segregation. Women organizers, including Anna Arnold Hedgeman, helped make the mobilization possible despite their marginalization in public accounts.
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More than 200,000 people gathered to demand civil and economic rights. The march connected racial equality to jobs, housing, and labor, and drew on a longer Black freedom struggle against slavery’s afterlives and segregation. Women organizers, including Anna Arnold Hedgeman, helped make the mobilization possible despite their marginalization in public accounts.
More than 200,000 people gathered to demand civil and economic rights. The march connected racial equality to jobs, housing, and labor, and drew on a longer Black freedom struggle against slavery’s afterlives and segregation. Women organizers, including Anna Arnold Hedgeman, helped make the mobilization possible despite their marginalization in public accounts.
This statement accurately summarizes the event: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.