In nineteen forty-one, a leader in the black community,A.Philip Randolph, threatened to lead a giant march on Washington for civil rights for blacks.

VOA: special.2011.06.30

In nineteen sixty-eight, Martin Luther King was planning to lead a Poor People's March on Washington.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

Shortly after that, Dr.King organized the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

She took part in the March on Washington protest in nineteen sixty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The March on Washington took place in August of 1963.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

On March fourth, eighteen sixty-nine, Ulysses Grant traveled to Washington for his inauguration as the eighteenth president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He decided to make it on March seventh, just three days after Calhoun's speech was read to the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

On March thirty-first, President Johnson spoke to Americans about the war in Vietnam and his efforts to limit it.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

But she realized then that his mind would forever be on the march, always requiring something newer, better and more perfect.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the building of new homes fell in March to the second-lowest level on record.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

On March seventeenth, many Irish Americans will eat a traditional meal of corned beef and cabbage to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The National Women's Hall of Fame announced ten new members on March second to honor National Women's History Month.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

The caterpillars were suspected to be African armyworms -- so named because they look like an army on the march.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, with twenty-four thousand men, on a quick march around the western end of Pope's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

In March, President Obama ended restrictions on the use of federal money for research using human embryonic stem cells.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

On a cold and cloudy day in March of eighteen sixty-one, Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

More than seven hundred fifty thousand tickets sold out within hours of going on sale in March.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

On Sunday,March third, it was announced that Calhoun would speak in the Senate the next day.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

His march to the sea had a great, destructive effect on the spirit of the South.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Norman Ernest Borlaug was born to Norwegian-American parents in rural Iowa on March twenty-fifth, nineteen fourteen.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

The doll first appeared at the toy fair in New York on March ninth, nineteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

On March thirteenth, Clyde Tombaugh and V.M Slipher announced the discovery of a new planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

On March fourth,eighteen sixty-five, Abraham Lincoln was sworn-in as president after winning a second term.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

By the end of March, twelve percent of homeowners with a mortgage were late on loan payments or in the process of losing their home.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Fifty thousand women marched in New York City on March eighth, nineteen hundred and eight.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Space debris made news on March twelfth when a part of an old rocket motor about ten centimeters in size threatened the International Space Station.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Then,many years later, on March third,nineteen thirty-one, "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became America's national anthem.

VOA: special.2011.03.07