Protesters at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963)
Protesters carry signs demanding decent housing at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, DC. Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the demonstration and veteran labor leader who helped to found the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, American Federation of Labor (AFL) and a former vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); and Walter P. Reuther, President of the United Automobile Workers Union and Vice President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, lead marchers.
Date: 8/28/1963
Location: National Archives and Records Administration
Access Conditions: Public Domain