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Fifty years after the March on Washington, UCLA faculty and activists remember being a part of the 200,000-person crowd that overflowed Washington D.C.&#039;s Mall to participate in the protest that would soon become a symbol of the civil rights movement.

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Even prison guards who kept watch over jailed civil rights activists in Savannah, Ga., listened to the radio broadcast of the March on Washington.

https://dailybruin.com/2013/08/26/marching-forward-ucla-activists-recall-memories-of-historic-march-on-washington/

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Marching forward: UCLA activists recall memories of historic March on Washington

By Kristen Taketa

Aug. 26, 2013 1:35 a.m.