Lincoln Memorial
Where contralto Marian Anderson sang on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, before an integrated crowd of 75,000, after the Daughters of the American Revolution barred her from singing at Constitution Hall. Where, on August 28, 1963, A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and the leaders of the “Big Six” civil rights organizations convened the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, drawing more than 250,000 people to the National Mall and culminating in Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” address.
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