Third anniversary of ruling Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Massive resistance by proponents of racial segregation in education
Resulted in
Speech "Give Us the Ballot" delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.
Parties
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Member of Congress
Lead figures
SCLC members
Martin Luther King Jr.
NAACP members
Roy Wilkins
Organizers
A. Philip Randolph
Bayard Rustin
Ella Baker
Congressman
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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Civil Rights Movement in Washington D.C.
National movement
Journey of Reconciliation
Executive Order 9981
Prayer Pilgrimage
Strom Thurmond filibuster
Civil Rights Act of 1957
1st Youth March
2nd Youth March
Civil Rights Act of 1960
Baldwin–Kennedy meeting
President Kennedy's civil rights address
March on Washington
"I Have a Dream"
24th U.S. Constitutional Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Poor People's Campaign
District of Columbia
District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.
Bolling v. Sharpe
23rd U.S. Constitutional Amendment
The Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, or Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington, was a 1957 demonstration in Washington, D.C., an early event in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It was the occasion for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Give Us the Ballot speech.
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