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Warren Leffler for USN&WR / Library of Congress
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"They're Pouring in From All Over" read the newspaper headline in August of 1963. Despite fears that no one would attend or that violence would erupt, approximately 250,000 people traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the march for civil liberties organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin.
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