Many of the most recognized photographs from 50 years ago feature civil rights icons. But 200,000 unheralded Americans also made history on Aug. 28, 1968, and it’s time their names were known and their stories told. Please peruse these photos, share this gallery with those you know and help us identify these activists and the role they played in a great social movement. Click here to add your thoughts and images to the story.
"Free Lemonade for Freedom Marchers" read the banner Marguerite Kelly's children hung in their Capitol Hill rowhouse window on Aug. 28, 1963. Katy, right, was 7 and remembers marchers in their Sunday best, gloves for the women, jackets and ties for the men. She is shown here with her sister, Meg, left, then 3½, and her 6-year-old brother, Michael, who became a reporter and editor for The Washington Post and New York Times and was the first journalist killed in Iraq. Who are the boys who stopped by and posed for this photo? Who did they grow up to be?
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