Pennant From the March on Washington "Let the world know we want
freedom," August 28, 1963 As it proclaims, this pennant "was
there" for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, at
which civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his
celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech. During the 1960s and '70s,
curators collected objects from civil rights, women's rights,
antiwar, and other demonstrations taking place on the National
Mall. The Smithsonian continues to document political events as
they unfold. ||Martin Luther King Jr., born January 15, 1929,
Atlanta, GA; died April 4, 1968, Memphis, TN ||Web display only
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