The March on Washington: Power to the People — time.com

So many scenes from the August 28, 1963, March on Washington are now familiar to so many of us—and the cadence of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is so much a part of the national consciousness—it’s easy forget that for the hundreds of thousands of people who marched and rallied that day, the event was wholly, thrillingly new. There had been, of course, other civil rights protests, marches and demonstrations. But none had been so large (estimates range anywhere from 200,000 to 300,00 people) and none garnered so much attention before, during and, especially, after the event itself.

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