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"I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'"

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American labor union leader and civil-rights activist. He founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and helped drive the 1963 March on Washington. He died in 1979.

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