WASHINGTON (WHSV) – Sixty-two years ago today on Aug. 28, 1963, about 250,000 Americans gathered at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
The demonstration, known as the March on Washington, was a peaceful, collaborative effort between civil rights groups and labor organizations, according to History.com. It focused on employment discrimination as well as civil rights abuses against Black people, Latinos and other disenfranchised groups…