On Aug. 28, 1963, more than a quarter million people walked in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom – the same march that saw Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. give his I Have a Dream Speech. It was that march that helped lead to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The landmark legislation banned segregation in public places and prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. But those who fought for their freedoms were arrested, beaten and threatened, while others — Medgar Evers, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X., and, of course, King — were assassinated. On this episode of The Switch Up, we’re taking a walk back through his
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