On August 28, 1963, approximately 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the largest demonstration for civil rights in American history to that point. Organized by Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph, the march built an alliance of civil …
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The King-Anderson bill, President Kennedy’s Medicare proposal introduced by Representative Cecil King and Senator Clinton Anderson, is defeated in committee despite strong public support after intense lobbying by the American Medical Association, corporate healthcare interests, and …
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President John F. Kennedy issues Executive Order 10988 granting federal employees the right to collective bargaining for the first time in U.S. history, catalyzing explosive growth in public sector unionization that transforms the American labor movement. Following Kennedy’s executive action, …
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