What is the significance of the March on Washington to the nation 60 years later in your view?
What it means today is that we have taken steps backward, many steps backward, and I know we just have a lot of work to do to get back to even there, where we were so many years ago, in terms of a national, a nationwide desire for true equality and democracy and jobs and justice.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., center, leads the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Photo courtesy of Center for Jewish History
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