Content Description A collection of 261 contemporary newspaper issues and articles from around the United States regarding the 1963 March on Washington for Civil Rights and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. The collection includes both complete newspapers featuring front-page news coverage of the events but also scores of "minor" articles, columns, and editorials located in the back pages which record events that transpired before, during, and after the marches. The news archive was assembled to document the...

Abstract

Planners for Equal Opportunity was established in 1964 by a small group of professionals in the housing, planning, architecture and social work fields as an organization through which planning skills and concepts could be used to work for equality among minorities. The group encouraged professional planners to serve as civil rights advocates and to work for the change of policies and practices they considered racist.