Core Member Walking To Washington, 1963
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Core Member Walking To Washington, 1963
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CORE members swing down Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, toward 69th Street ferry on trek to Washington. The group of women and men who were walking from New York City to Washington, D.C., to participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, CORE was one of the "Big Four" civil rights organizations, along with the SCLC, the SNCC, and the NAACP. Though still existent, CORE has been much less influential since the end of the 1955-68 civil rights movement. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African-Americans. On Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism. The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations, under the theme "jobs, and freedom". Orlando Fernandez, August 15, 1963.
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