March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963)

Police from as far away as Alabama were watching.

King offered Americans the choice between acting in accordance with the Constitution and resistance to change.  In many ways, we face the same choice today.

The Post interviewed March on Washington participants and voices from younger generations to tell the story of Aug. 28, 1963 and what it means now.

Why women civil rights organizers marginalized at this event, and how that affects our collective memory of the struggle.

It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration. In fact, it was the culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice.

Exploring the origins and impacts of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," on that event's 50th anniversary.

This new biopic about the socialist organizer Bayard Rustin stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out?

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s iconic speech, annotated with relevant scholarship on the literary, political, and religious roots of his words.

The King holiday is more than a time for reflection. It’s really a time for provocation.

The 1963 March on Washington put a government guarantee to a job at the front of the civil rights agenda. It’s long past time to complete the work.

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin knew the fates of the civil rights and labor movements were intertwined. The same is true today.

What the late civil-rights leader and congressman taught the nation.

The success of the 1963 March on Washington hinged on a confluence of factors that aren't yet present for demonstrators today.

Despite their large role in civil rights activism, black women have frequently been excluded from prominent positions in protests.

She was an architect of the civil-rights struggle-and the women's movement. Why haven't you heard of her?

The civil rights movement was not nearly as admired by white Americans in its own time as we imagine it being.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

A conversation with the longtime director about “Rustin,” growing up in Kentucky, and putting on a show.

A new film finally spotlights Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington.