what was the purpose of the 1963 march on washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, held on August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C. , was a landmark event for the early civil rights movement and is partly credited with winning the passage of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964.. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, proposed a mass march on Washington, D.C., modeled after his 1941 March on Washington Movement. There were many competing ideas for the march.