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The MOWM was the model for the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous âI Have a Dream Speech,â and the militant Black-only politics of the MOWM foreshadowed the Black Power movement of the late 1960s.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. On 28 August 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nationâs capital.The march was successful in pressuring the administration of John F. Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress.n the summer of 1941 A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, called for a march on Washington, D. C., to draw attention to the exclusion of African Americans from positions in the national defense industry.