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Members of the Carroll Co. chapter of the NAACP joined tens of thousands on Sat., Aug. 24, at National Mall - at the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial - in Washington DC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington.

Fifty years later, march shows progress can be made by working together

Tens of thousands of marchers, including many from Baltimore, converged on Washington Saturday to celebrate the upcoming anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and to urge action on jobs, voting rights and gun violence.

Thousands of people are expected to descend on Washington this weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington civil rights event. Several events are planned for the weekend and on Wednesday, Aug. 28, the anniversary of the day of the march. Baltimore-area civil rights groups are scrambling to keep up with the demand for bus reservations.