March On Washington

The March On Washington took place August 28, 1963 with the goal of shedding light on the political and social challenges that African Americans faced throughout the entire country. The march turned out to big a huge success with reports of between two and three hundred thousand participants and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. Immediately after the speech the organizers would then meet with President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, to discuss the need of a Civil Rights legislation. Those legislations would come in form of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. However, President John F. Kennedy wouldn't get to see these historical acts passed as he was assassinated nearly three months after the March On Washington. Though these acts and this progress wasn't the end of the Civil Rights Era, it was a step in the right direction. To this day I love learning about different cultures and languages, as well as meeting people from around the world and traveling. When I study the struggle for equality, or at the time racial equality it is sad and sometimes hard to wrap my head around how difficult it was to improve equality. No matter what I study It doesn't make sense that it was such a struggle and attempting to understand the struggle is what caught my interest.