The March on Washington

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf protest
gptkbp:canBe gptkb:aircraft
District of Columbia police
gptkbp:category gptkb:Civil_rights_movement
1963 in the United States
Protests in Washington, D.C.
gptkbp:commemoratedBy annual March on Washington anniversary events
gptkbp:date August 28, 1963
gptkbp:documentedIn photographs
documentary films
newsreels
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The March on Washington
gptkbp:location gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:mediaCoverage extensive
gptkbp:notableParticipant gptkb:Bob_Dylan
gptkb:Daisy_Bates
gptkb:Floyd_McKissick
gptkb:James_Farmer
gptkb:Joan_Baez
gptkb:Josephine_Baker
gptkb:Marian_Anderson
gptkb:Odetta
gptkb:Peter,_Paul_and_Mary
gptkb:Rabbi_Joachim_Prinz
gptkb:Roy_Wilkins
gptkb:Walter_Reuther
gptkb:Whitney_Young
gptkbp:notableSpeaker gptkb:A._Philip_Randolph
gptkb:I_Have_a_Dream
gptkb:John_Lewis
gptkb:Mahalia_Jackson
gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
gptkbp:officialName gptkb:March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Nation_of_Islam
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:A._Philip_Randolph
gptkb:Bayard_Rustin
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Committee
gptkbp:participants over 250,000
gptkbp:petitioner gptkb:U.S._Congress
gptkb:President_John_F._Kennedy
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Birmingham_campaign
gptkbp:purpose civil rights
racial justice
economic equality
gptkbp:requires desegregation of public schools
adequate and integrated education
decent housing
self-government for Washington, D.C.
increase in minimum wage
fair employment
meaningful civil rights legislation
protection of the right to vote
gptkbp:resultedIn gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
gptkbp:route from Washington Monument to Lincoln Memorial
gptkbp:slogan Jobs and Freedom
gptkbp:supportedBy gptkb:CORE
gptkb:NAACP
gptkb:National_Urban_League
gptkb:SCLC
gptkb:SNCC
gptkb:United_Auto_Workers
gptkbp:televisionShow yes
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Jim_Haskins
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6