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KRT US NEWS STORY SLUGGED: DREAMSPEECH-RUSTIN KRT PHOTOGRAPH VIA PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER (August 26) 16 years after his death, historians are starting to give organizer and impresario of the March on Washington, which took place on August 28, 1963, Bayard T. Rustin, shown here in this 1970 file photo, credit for, among other things, schooling King in the virtues of nonviolence and civil disobedience and pulling together the broad national coalition of black churches, white liberals, Jews, Catholics and elements of organized labor that formed the backbone of the civil rights movement and provided its marchers. (lde) 2003 USA EDITORIAL USE ONLY Copyright: xx KRT MBRx krtphotoslive095465

Martin Luther King and the Leaders of the March on Washington, 28th August 1963 (b w photo) 1699417 Martin Luther King and the Leaders of the March on Washington, 28th August 1963 (b w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. At the march, final speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic I Have a Dream speech in which he called for an end to racism.). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 1699417

MARCH ON WASHINGTON, 1963. President John F. Kennedy meeting with civil rights leaders following the March on Washington. Left to right: Mathew Ahmann, Whitney Young, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, Reverend Eugene Carson Blake, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther, Lyndon Johnson, and Roy Wilkins. Photograph, 28 August 1963. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0527232

Bayard Rustin (center) speaking with (left to right) Carolyn Carter, Cecil Carter, Kurt Levister, and Kathy Ross, before demonstration, Ed Ford, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, 1964 Bayard Rustin (center) speaking with (left to right) Carolyn Carter, Cecil Carter, Kurt Levister, and Kathy Ross, before demonstration, Ed Ford, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, 1964. Copyright: 1010_05_ghi-circa12285

14, 1605, Washington, DC, USA: Martin Luther King speaking at Press Conference at U.S. Capitol about Senate Debate on Civil Rights Act of 1964, Washington, DC USA, Marion S. Trikosko, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, March 26, 1964 Washington USA - ZUMAg145 16051314_zap_g145_001 Copyright: xJTxVintagex

August 31, 2021, Washington, DC, USA: Martin Luther King, Jr., leaning on Lectern during Press Conference, Washington, DC USA, Marion S. Trikosko, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, March 26, 1964 Washington USA - ZUMAg145 20210831_zap_g145_011 Copyright: xJTxVintagex