On the 28th August 1963, American Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of knowledge’.
Tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington D.C.
Bonus Marchers in Washington D.C. were forcibly removed by the U.S. Army under General Douglas MacArthur.
James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C.
Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.
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