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50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

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Thursday, August 28, marks the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington.  Host Ben Kieffer looks back on this historic day withRev. Milton Cole-Duvall who attended the March when he was a 19-year-old college student and former Iowa state Rep. Wayne Ford who was an 11-year-old boy living in Washington, D.C. at the time of the March.  Also, former Black Panther Kesho Scottof Grinnell College gives her reflections on this anniversary.

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River