TIME Magazine: 50th Anniversary of March on Washington

One Man. One March. One Speech.

One Dream

Fifty years ago, 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall for the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream for America. TIME talks to the people who helped make the march a success—from civil rights leaders to Hollywood stars—and offers exclusive, unseen images from that transformative era.

King at the March 

 

On Aug. 28, 1963, some of the country’s most celebrated photojournalists were in the nation's capital chronicling the March on Washington. Five of those photographers—Bob Adelman, Dan Budnik, Fred Ward, Gordon Parks and Flip Schulke— captured unforgettable images of King before, during and after he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.