The March

To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which demanded equal rights for African Americans, we present James Blue’s powerful film documenting participants as they traveled from various cities to Washington, DC. Once there, marching with over 200,000 others, they witnessed Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. present “I Have a Dream,” one of the defining speeches in the civil rights movement. Edward R. Murrow called The March “the finest argument for peaceful petition of redress of grievance that has ever been put on film.” It was placed on the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2008 and was restored in 2013. For further information, see “James Blue’s Documentary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.”