March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	protest civil rights demonstration
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:The_Great_March_on_Washington
gptkbp:attendedBy	gptkb:A._Philip_Randolph gptkb:Bayard_Rustin gptkb:Bob_Dylan gptkb:James_Farmer gptkb:Joan_Baez gptkb:John_Lewis gptkb:Josephine_Baker gptkb:Mahalia_Jackson gptkb:Marian_Anderson gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr. gptkb:Rabbi_Joachim_Prinz gptkb:Roy_Wilkins gptkb:Walter_Reuther gptkb:Whitney_Young
gptkbp:date	1963-08-28
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	gptkb:ABC gptkb:CBS gptkb:NBC major newspapers
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:I_Have_a_Dream_speech
gptkbp:organizedBy	gptkb:A._Philip_Randolph gptkb:Bayard_Rustin gptkb:Congress_of_Racial_Equality gptkb:James_Farmer gptkb:John_Lewis gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr. gptkb:National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People gptkb:National_Urban_League gptkb:Roy_Wilkins gptkb:Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference gptkb:Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee gptkb:Walter_Reuther gptkb:Whitney_Young
gptkbp:participants	over 250,000
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:purpose	civil rights economic justice freedom racial equality jobs
gptkbp:resultedIn	increased support for Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased support for Voting Rights Act of 1965
gptkbp:route	from Washington Monument to Lincoln Memorial
gptkbp:slogan	Jobs and Freedom
gptkbp:speechBy	gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:I_Have_a_Dream_speech gptkb:John_Lewis gptkb:March_on_Washington gptkb:Michael_King_Jr. gptkb:Moneta_Sleet_Jr. gptkb:NAACP gptkb:National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People gptkb:National_Mall gptkb:Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference gptkb:activist
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