Many of the most recognized photographs from 50 years ago feature civil rights icons. But 200,000 unheralded Americans also made history on Aug. 28, 1963, and it’s time their names were known and their stories told. Please peruse these photos, share this gallery with those you know, and help us identify these activists and the role they played in a great social movement. Click here to add your thoughts and images to the story.
The documentarian Leonard Freed was one of the 200,000 who came to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and he and scores of other photographers created what his widow, Brigitte, calls "the remarkable recording of the silent dignity of the masses of black people and their allies." The dignity was not always silent, though. People also sang, sometimes reverently, sometimes boisterously. Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos Buy Photo