Thousands March on Washington to Defend Voting Rights
Speakers and marchers said voting rights and labor demands are linked, with tens of thousands joining the anniversary event, organizers reported.
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Voting rights struggle continues, advocates say at March on Washington anniversary • Kentucky Lantern
WASHINGTON — Just over two months from midterm elections and four months removed from a U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted Voting Rights Act protections for majority Black U.S. House districts, and 63 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech there, thousands gathered again at the Lincoln Memorial Friday. […]
March on Washington links voting rights and economic justice
WASHINGTON—Speakers and marchers at the anniversary commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous March on Washington linked voting rights and economic justice, just as he did back on Aug. 28, 1963. Busloads of marchers came from all over the nation to the event, on a sweltering day in downtown D.C. There were 10 busloads full […]
March on Washington renews focus on voting rights
Thousands of people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial on the 63rd anniversary of the March on Washington for a program on August 28 bookended by prayers and focused on voting rights. The son of Martin Luther King Jr., who that day more than six decades before delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, decried the state of voting rights in the United States, referring to the Supreme Court’s gutting of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act earlier th…
August 30, 2026.- Civil rights leaders and Democratic legislators, along with hundreds of protesters, demonstrated at the National Mall on Friday to commemorate the March on Washington in 1963, with many speakers highlighting the importance of the non-government mid-term elections.
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