March on Washington

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a commencement address to the graduates of Morgan State College in June 1958 that contained some of the stirring…

Trudi McGowan was 36 in August 1963, black, living in Pimlico. She now lives in Edgewater, MDAll I had to do was get my clothes together because this…

Born a few years after the March (in 1967), Maryland Del. Keiffer Mitchell’s family has a long history as part of the civil rights movement in Baltimore.…

WYPR is collecting and posting your stories of the March on Washington. To share your experiences or pictures, email [email protected] years old in…

19 years old in 1963, black, living in Northeast Washington DC, now lives in Mitchellville, MDI was keeping abreast of the events and the forth coming…

Ralph Moore of the Living Classrooms Foundation was 11 years old and living in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of West Baltimore in August, 1963. He…

19 years old in 1963, white, a rising sophomore at Stanford University, now lives in Cockeysville.I was very involved in the anti-war movement and…

University of Maryland Law Professor Larry Gibson was a 21-year-old student at Howard University when he went to the March on August 28, 1963. Here's an…

The late Vernon Dobson approached the March with a sense of foreboding. In an interview with Barbara Mills, author of Got My Mind Set On Freedom, he…