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Hollywood Flashback: In 1963, Hollywood Showed Up to March on D.C.

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The Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which started at the Washington Monument and ended in front of the Lincoln Memorial, would go down as the most significant civil rights protest in U.S.

history — it featured Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech — yet it earned no mention in The Hollywood Reporter.

This despite the many stars in attendance — Sammy Davis Jr., Rita Moreno, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Paul Newman and Marlon Brando among them. (THR did report that Belafonte had canceled a performance that night at L.A.'s Greek Theatre but offered no reason why.) "Harry decided that he wanted to have a Hollywood contingent there, probably to let Dr.

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