LibGuides: Civil Rights: March on Washington

I Have a Dream Speech August 28, 1963

Websites

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Contains a narrative on the March on Washington, plus links to other primary source materials relating to the March.
Official Program for the March on Washington
The program at the National Archives listed the events scheduled at the Lincoln Memorial during the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Selected Books on the March on Washington

The March on Washington by James Haskins
Call Number: Juv. F200 .H35 1993

ISBN: 0060212896

Publication Date: 1993-01-01

Discusses the people and events connected with the 1963 March on Washington, as well as the consequences of this well-known civil rights demonstration.
The March on Washington : jobs, freedom, and the forgotten history of civil rights by William P. Jones
Call Number: F200 .J66 2013

ISBN: 9780393082852

Publication Date: 2013-07-29
Nobody turn me around : a people's history of the 1963 march on Washington by Charles Euchner
Call Number: F200 .E934 2010

ISBN: 9780807000595

Publication Date: 2010-06-29

March on Washington Picture

"Hundreds of thousands descended on Washington, D.C.'s, Lincoln Memorial Aug. 28, 1963. It was from the steps of the memorial that King delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech. King's many speeches and nonviolent actions were instrumental in shaping the nation's outlook on equality."

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. — marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial--1963