60 years ago to the day – August 28th, 1963 – US civil rights leader, Doctor Martin Luther King Junior gave one of the most famous speeches in American history.

He told a crowd of a quarter of a million people – the largest up until that point in Washington – that he had a dream. That dream being that one day the United States would live up to its ideals and achieve racial equality. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a push for an end to discrimination and is widely credited with leading to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in the following year.

This weekend, thousands again marched in the US capital Washington to remember that pivotal moment in the nation’s history. Many of the speakers – including Dr King’s son – expressed concern over the state of race relations 60 years on.

To dive a little deeper into the legacy of the march on Washington and the work still ahead to achieve racial justice, we speak to attorney Barbara Arnwine, former head of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, who joins us from Washington, and constitutional law professor Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

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