On August 28, 1963 more than 200,000 people peacefully demonstrate in Washington, D.C. for civil rights, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Designed to occur on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the march's goals include the following: “a comprehensive civil rights bill” that does away with segregated public accommodations; “protection of the right to vote;" mechanisms for seeking the redress of violations of constitutional rights; the “desegregation of all public schools in 1963;” a massive federal works program “to train and place unemployed workers;” and “a Federal Fair Employment Practices Act barring discrimination in all employment."