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March on Washington
July 14, 2020
J.C. Pan
In Defense of Free Stuff During (and After) the Pandemic
The mass expansion of public goods is long past due, so pay people to stay home, give them free health care, and stop charging tuition.
January 15, 2019
MagazineMicah L. Sifry
Resistance Training
What makes a protest powerful?
March 16, 2016
Jennifer Scanlon
Where Were the Women in the March on Washington?
How men in the Civil Rights movement erased women from its ranks.
August 28, 2013
Julia Fisher
Dispatch from the Mall: 50 Years After the March on Washington
August 24, 2013
Jelani Cobb
The Forgotten March on Washington
It never happened—but still had more impact than today's reenactment
August 22, 2013
Michael Kazin
The White Man Whose 'March on Washington' Speech You Should Remember Too
September 4, 1963
Murray Kempton
The March on Washington

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