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Ann Scales, Globe Staff. "Children's advocates plan for Washington march." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). The New York Times Company. 1996. HighBeam Research. 21 Oct. 2013 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
Ann Scales, Globe Staff. "Children's advocates plan for Washington march." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). 1996. HighBeam Research. (October 21, 2013). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8370385.html
Ann Scales, Globe Staff. "Children's advocates plan for Washington march." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). The New York Times Company. 1996. Retrieved October 21, 2013 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8370385.html
WASHINGTON -- What the 1963 March on Washington did for civil rights, what Earth Day did for the environmental movement, what the Vietnam protests meant for the antiwar campaign is what organizers hope Stand for Children day will do for children's causes.
Tens of thousands of people, many of them from Boston, are expected to gather at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday for what Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund, expects will be the largest demonstration in history for children and families.
"It's almost worth doing just to get the energy back," said Edelman, whose liberal activist group is the primary sponsor of the event. "We could not …
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