On Aug. 28, 1963, AP reporter Raymond J. Crowley went to the National Mall and chronicled the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which went on to become one
A vast throng, estimated by Police Chief Robert V. Murray to have numbered more than 200,000 at its peak, converged on the capital yesterday for the rally - which resembled more a revivalist camp meeting than a militant civil rights demonstration.
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Of all the speeches at the memorial, the one that drew the strongest applause was made by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership