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No Easy Walk (1961-1963) | March on Washington: John Lewis
"We want our freedom and we want it now." An excerpt of John Lewis's speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. From Eyes on the Prize: No Easy Walk (1961-1963).
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