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October 14 - Marching for Equality
On this day in Labor History the year was 1979.
That was the day that the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights took place in Washington D.C.
Estimates of marchers ranged from as few 75,000 to as many as 200,000.
The year of the march was significant.
It marked the ten-year anniversary of the police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village.
When police raided Stonewall it sparked a series of protests that helped launch the modern LGBT rights movement.
Ten years later, gay and lesbian Americans still faced significant employment and legal…
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