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On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, and it was this peaceful protest that spurred the momentous civil rights laws of the mid-1960sProduct Videos
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Author Kathleen Krull
Binding Paperback
Series What WasÂ…?
Language English
Book Type Nonfiction
Grade Content 5
Guided Reading Level S
Lexile 900
Accelerated Reading Level 6.1
Subject Social Studies
Standard SS5H6b. Events and people of the Civil Rights Movement: Brown vs. Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B. Johnson, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther
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