March on Washington Button: Discussion Questions - Description

  1. What do you see on this button? (Give everyone in the group a chance to add something that they see.)
  2. Just looking at the button, what do you think the phrase "Jobs and Freedom" means? What do you see that makes you say that?
  3. Based on what you see in this button, what do you think were some of the implicit and explicit goals of the 1963 March on Washington? What makes you say that?
  4. Based on what you've already learned about the Civil Rights Movement, what types of freedoms do you think the marchers hoped to bring about?

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Jewish Women's Archive. "March on Washington Button: Discussion Questions - Description." (Viewed on November 2, 2024) <http://qa.jwa.org/node/11921>.