Giving voice to all communities
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic "I Have A Dream" speech 60 years ago. Nikole Killion takes a look at one of the drafts of the speech to see how it differs from what King ultimately said on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1963's March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is an event remembered not only for its soul-stirring rhetoric but for the change it spurred. The decades that followed have been filled with both progress and hardships -- including the assassination of the leader of that history-making march. Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League, joins CBS News to reflect on the march.
Save Harlem Now! led the effort ahead of the famed civil rights demonstration's 60th anniversary.
Sixty years ago, words from Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech were heard all across America. But before he said them in Washington, he recorded them in Detroit.
A number of Pittsburghers traveled to Washington for the historic day in 1963, including the local leader of the NAACP at the time.
Johnson's seven decades of fighting for voting, housing, education, and employment rights in the Land of 10,000 Lakes is legendary. WCCO's Reg Chapman sat down with the civil rights icon as she reflected on this historic moment.
A Harlem apartment building was once the national headquarters for the March on Washington, and where the majority of the planning and organizing took place.
Monday marks 60 years since Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders led the March on Washington. The Library of Congress on Capitol Hill holds a number of artifacts from the march. CBS News White House reporter Willie James Inman takes a tour of the collection.
Sixty years after the March on Washington, recent research by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found Black families on average owned about 24 cents for every dollar owned by a white family. Javier David, managing editor for business and markets at Axios, joined CBS News to talk about the state of Black wealth six decades after the march.
Sixty years ago Monday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington and delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. Tracey Robinson-English, professor with the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, joins CBS News to talk about the speech and what it meant.
