What is March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
[[File:March on Washington edit.jpg|thumbnail|right|March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, from the steps of the [[Lincoln Memorial]].]] The '''March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom''' was a [[rally]] held on the [[National Mall]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] on 28 August [[1963]]. It was where [[Martin Luther King, Jr]] gave his famous [[I Have a Dream]] speech. After the march, the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] and the [[National Voting Rights Act of 1965]] were passed. There were over 200,000 people there, both [[Black people|black]] and [[White people|white]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington |title=March on Washington |author= |website= |publisher=History?A&E Television Network, LLC |accessdate=7 March 2016}}</ref> == Organization and planning == The march was first planned by [[A. Philip Randolph]], who was the president of the Negro American Labor Council, and vice president of the [[AFL-CIO]]. He had planned another civil rights march in 1941, but it never happened. However, the threat of the march was a big reason why [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] wrote [[Executive Order]] 8802. This forced [[equal opportunity]] in the [[defense (military)|defense]] [[industry]], which meant that all workers had to be treated the same, no matter what their race was. Other leaders of [[Civil Rights Movement|civil rights movement]] helped Randolph plan the march and spread the word to their members. Some of the most important were James Farmer, (president of the [[Congress of Racial Equality]]), John Lewis (president of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]]),<ref name=WDL>{{cite web|title=Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Mathew Ahmann, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, in a Crowd|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2738/|publisher=[[World Digital Library]]|accessdate=10 F