Foreword

By Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Chairman, Southern Christian Leadership Conference

On August 28, a Wednesday in 1963, something quite amazing occurred. In the photo journal that follows, you can experience that event that changed America.

African American civil rights organizations, including the Negro American Labor Council, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the National Urban League united into joint leadership, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) prominent among them, in one of the largest political rallies ever to march on Washington, D.C. on behalf of their civil ...

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