Labor journalist David Elsila remembers the 1963 March for Freedom in Detroit, Michigan, "the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history" up to that date, featuring Martin Luther King’s first draft of his “I Have a Dream” speech, written at Solidarity House, the United Auto Workers headquarters in Detroit.
NOTE: The Michigan Labor History Society will host a commemoration of the March on Wednesday, June 7 at the UAW Local 22 Union Hall, 4300 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, MI.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union founded.
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