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Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Prayer_Pilgrimage_for_Freedom
GPTKB entity
Statements (30)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
protest
civil rights demonstration
gptkbp:attendedBy
gptkb:A._Philip_Randolph
gptkb:Bayard_Rustin
gptkb:Mahalia_Jackson
gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
gptkb:Ralph_Abernathy
gptkb:Roy_Wilkins
gptkbp:date
May 17, 1957
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
gptkbp:influenced
gptkb:March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom
gptkbp:location
gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:mediaCoverage
gptkb:The_New_York_Times
gptkb:Jet_magazine
gptkb:Ebony_magazine
gptkbp:notableSpeaker
gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
gptkb:Give_Us_the_Ballot
gptkbp:organizedBy
gptkb:NAACP
gptkb:National_Urban_League
gptkb:Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference
civil rights organizations
gptkbp:participants
about 25,000
gptkbp:purpose
demand federal action on civil rights
urge enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education
gptkbp:relatedTo
gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:significance
first large-scale national civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C.
gptkbp:target
gptkb:President_Dwight_D._Eisenhower
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:1963_March_on_Washington
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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