12K views · 385 reactions | On this day in 1963, 250,000 people marched in Washington, DC demanding civil rights for African Americans in the US. Among the organizers and speakers of the event was Rabbi Joachim Prinz, who had escaped Nazi Germany and became a prominent Jewish leader in America. A supporter of the civil right movement, he spoke about Jewish solidarity with the oppressed. | World Jewish Congress | Facebook

2.7K views · 306 reactions | On this day in 1963, a quarter of a million Americans gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one of the most iconic events of the civil rights movement. Now, 60 years later, the SPLC joins numerous organizations and community organizers in continuing what Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin and so many others began in a powerful moment to unite, resist and fight against injustice ✊. | Southern Poverty Law Center | Facebook