THE GEORGE MEANY MEMORIAL ARCHIVES

Labor and Civil Rights: Two Movements, One Goal?

Activity: Protest for Social Change


Click Here for a Larger Version Photograph of March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Participants, 1963.

Approximately 50,000 of the 250,000 marchers represented organized labor. The AFL-CIO did not endorse the march, but supported march goals and acknowledged the right of its affiliates to participate.

Photograph credit: George Meany Memorial Archives.


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