By Caitlin C. Schnur, Workforce Research and Policy Fellow, National Transitional Jobs Network
and Jonathan Philipp, Research and Policy Assistant, National Transitional Jobs Network
Fifty years ago today, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in front of 250,000 demonstrators gathered on the National Mall for The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. While King’s speech is most widely hailed as a powerful call for racial equality, he also made important statements related to the need for economic justice. King reminded his audience that a century after the end of slavery, black Americans still “live[d] on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity” and too-often experienced horizontal “mobility…from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.” Recognizing the interconnection between racial and economic inequality, participants of The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom included
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