A march was organised by MLK and Philip Randolph called 'March for Jobs and Freedom', A huge crowd of 200,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial and millions more watched on television as King put forward his vision of a day when freedom and equality would be achieved in America., King made his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech at the memorial, King's words went across the world, becoming symbolic of the civil rights struggle and are still widely quoted today. King also spoke of the economic gulf between black and white and the poverty that many African-Americans faced in the USA., This speech was part of a new strand of political protest, the mass demonstration, which was soon picked up and used to great effect in student revolts worldwide., 1 year later, the civil rights act was introduced. .

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