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A stirring climax to ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was reached when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the rostrum and called on the nation to end racial discrimination "now." The Baptist minister, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was widely hailed as the "civil rights and religious leader" of the event. Religion News Service file photo
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