All posts tagged "march on washington"
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‘Radicals Shorts’ Reviews: Reel Affirmations 2023
A collection of films chronicling the LGBTQ struggles and triumphs through political activism and demonstrations.
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We’re Here… We’re Queer… We March…
It might seem obvious, even ordinary now—a half-century and many such events later—but Bayard Rustin’s work in organizing the first protest of many hundreds of...
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Our Gay Capital: A brief history of the LGBT movement in Washington D.C.
A brief history of the LGBT movement in Washington D.C.
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Sniping on the Mount
After the Aug. 24 rally at the Lincoln Memorial honoring the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, some people complained...
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Obama commemorates March on Washington with LGBT-inclusive address
President Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in a speech that called for unity and directly...
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Celebrating Bayard Rustin
On behalf of the National Black Justice Coalition and the black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, I applaud President Barack Obama for giving the...
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Celebrating Freedom
''There's so much going on in the seven days leading up to the 28th,'' says Terri Harris Reed of The George Washington University, referring to...
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Marching On
The LGBT community and its struggles for equality will share the stage alongside other communities advocating for social justice as community organizers, activists and civil...
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A Date To Remember
When it comes to dates, Paul Kuntzler is a sort of human computer. ''I first came to Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1961, for John...
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Fired Up for the Future
At 35, Aisha Moodie-Mills was a long way from arriving on the scene when the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place. But...
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Frontline Figure
Eleanor Holmes Norton was 26 years old when somewhere around 250,000 people descended on the nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and...
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History of Pride
Almost three decades before Stonewall, a gay African-American man named Bayard Rustin organized a 1941 March on Washington so successful that it never even took...
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October's Advance
There’s a ticking time bomb on the Equality Across America Web site. At least, that's how some local activists, like Michael Crawford, might view the...
