Nevada Appeal at 150: Aug. 28, 1963: 200,000 freedom marchers chant hymn

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Nevada Appeal at 150: Aug. 28, 1963: 200,000 freedom marchers chant hymn





















The great march on Washington hit a peak of more than 200,000 by police estimates today even as some of the demonstrators for jobs and equal freedom for all Americans began heading away from the city. Police Chief Edward Murray described the gathering of Negroes and white sympathizers as “the largest crowd of participants” in his knowledge and perhaps the largest in the city’s history. A small army of police, national guardsmen and police reservists had little to do because the massive gathering was one of the most orderly on record. The march of less than a mile, from the  …
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