Black History Month Facts

1963 – More than 200,000 people march on Washington, D. C., in the largest civil-rights demonstration in U. S. history; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream” speech. 1963 – Four young Black girls are killed in the bombing of a Birmingham, AL church. 1964 – President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964, giving government

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