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March on Washington renews focus on voting rights
The whole, contradictory truth
Martin Luther King Jr. worked to expose the distance between what the United States professed and what it practiced.
The dream and the backlash
Sixty years after the March on Washington, we don’t talk much about how nervous it made White people.
I wanted to join a group of pastors going to the March on Washington. But I had young children—and no money for bus fare and meals—so I didn’t. I've rued it ever since.