President Obama Marks 50th Anniversary of March on Washington

The World

President Barack Obama has linked the ongoing struggle for economic equality in American with the goals of the 1963 March on Washington, in a speech marking its 50th anniversary.

The first African-American president described economic and political equality as "our great unfinished business."

Obama also linked his own rise to the White House with the efforts of civil rights protesters.

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