On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King evoked the name of Lincoln in his "I Have a Dream" speech, which is credited with mobilizing supporters of desegregation and prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act. King's appearance was the last of the event the closing speech was carried live on major television networks. The assembled masses marched down the Washington Mall from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, heard songs from Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and heard speeches by actor Charlton Heston, NAACP president Roy Wilkins, and future U.S. His partners in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom included other religious leaders, labor leaders, and black organizers. Thrust into the national spotlight in Birmingham, where he was arrested and jailed, King helped organize a massive march on Washington, DC, on August 28, 1963. The bad publicity and break-down of business forced the white leaders of Birmingham to concede to some anti-segregation demands. They marched and protested non-violently, raising the ire of local officials who sicced water cannon and police dogs on the marchers, whose ranks included teenagers and children. In 1963, King and his staff focused on Birmingham, Alabama. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister, was a driving force in the push for racial equality in the 1950's and the 1960's. Board of Education and due to an increase in the activism of blacks, fighting for equal rights. The 1950's were a turbulent time in America, when racial barriers began to come down due to Supreme Court decisions, like Brown v. People of color - blacks, Hispanics, Asians - were discriminated against in many ways, both overt and covert. In 1950's America, the equality of man envisioned by the Declaration of Independence was far from a reality.
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