Sixty years after King’s ‘dream’ speech, thousands gather in Washington
By Rachel Nostrant and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thousands of Americans on Saturday commemorated the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, a pivotal event in the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement at which Martin Luther King Jr gave his galvanizing “I have a dream” speech. The 1963 march brought more than 250,000 people to the nation’s capital to push for an end to discrimination on the basis of race, […]