Diane Rehm Show: "Fifty Years After The March On Washington"

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013 

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, gestures during his "I Have a Dream" speech as he addresses thousands of civil rights supporters gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 1963. Actor-singer Sammy Davis Jr. can be seen at extreme right, bottom.

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Activists, civic leaders and the first African-American president will gather near the spot where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech 50 years ago in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Today's march comes just two months after the Supreme Court effectively erased a key anti-discrimination provision of the Voting Rights Act and raised the bar for consideration of race in university admissions. Guest host Frank Sesno and his guests discuss the legacy of the 1963 March on Washington and the state of civil rights in America today.

Guests

Anthony Cook 

law professor at Georgetown University. He teaches courses in constitutional law, civil rights and African-American critical thought.

Isabel Wilkerson 

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of "The Warmth of Other Suns."

David Garrow 

professor of history and law at University of Pittsburgh School of Law and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography "Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference."

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