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In 1941, Philip Randolph attempted to organize a march on washington to protest an African American man being excluded from World War II defence jobs, but President Roosevelt met with Randolph and passed a bill against discrimination of workers and created the FEPC. SO, in return the march got called off.
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In 1946 congress dissolved all funding to the FEPC program.
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Randolph attempted to organize another march with new civil rights Icon Martin Luther King Jr. along with the assistance of the NAACP
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in early May, around 25,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to remember the third anniversary of the Brown v. the board of education ruling.
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In may of 1963, there were a string of violent attacks on protestors in Birmingham, Alabama, and another mass protest was storming on the horizon.
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President John F. Kennedy met with civil rights leaders and relayed to them that the march may be not at the right time, but Randolph and King Jr. insisted the march shall go on.
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On august 13th, 1963, more than 200,000 people marched to the Washington monument in search for jobs and equal opportunity. There was also the "I Have a Dream" speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that would go down in history.