View of some of the leaders of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Among those pictured are, front row from left, John Lewis, Mathew Ahmann, Floyd B. McKissick (1922-1991), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), Reverend Eugene Carson Blake (1906-1985), Cleveland Robinson (1914-1995), and Rabbi Joachim Prinz (1902-1988) (in sunglasses). The march provided the setting for Dr. King s iconic I Have a Dream speech.
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An unchecked pandemic. Mass protests in response to the killing of Black citizens. A siege on the U.S. Capitol that featured guns, nooses, and the Confederate flag. The past 12 months have been among the most tumultuous ever for Americans, and for Black Americans in particular.