Zinn Education Project: Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washington

For High School and College Students

“Teaching about the March on Washington presents a series of challenges precisely because it involves counteracting sanitized textbooks and demythologizing not only the march, but also the Black Freedom Struggle — the Civil Rights Movement, as it became known. As such, there are a few points that cannot be overlooked if we want to honor the march’s true story”

Provides six points designed to challenge the traditional depiction of the march on Washington.

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University of Oregon Sponsored by Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art UO Libraries

The digital exhibition The March is the result of a collaboration between the University of Oregon Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike 4.0 International License to David Frank and the University of Oregon, 2018.