1. Civil Rights: Brown V. Board of Ed to failure of ERA
... (NAACP). On August 28, 1963 more than 250,000 people, both black and white, gathered at the Washington Monument and Walked to the Lincoln Memorial. The march dramatized the struggle for jobs and freedom, and to try to force congress to pass a pending civil rights bill. The key speaker for the march was Martin Luther King, Jr., who delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. The march turned out ... to be a pivotal point in the Civil Rights Movement. President John F. Kennedy, who supported the movement, met with civil rights leaders and promised to push the ... a woman's right to ab...
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