What the records say
- When
- 28 Aug 2020
- Kind
- Protest
- Coordinates
- 38.90° N, 77.04° W
- Description
- 2020 march in Washington, D.C.
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks
2020 event in Washington, D.C.
The Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks was an event held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2020. The march was organized by the National Action Network, and was led by Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III. The march's speakers included relatives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, among others. Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris spoke virtually.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Thousands of people gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for the Commitment March in support of black civil rights”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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