NEWS AND NOTES FOR THE MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS INDUSTRY

AAIC 2013 More than 5,000 Alzheimer’s researchers met in Boston. For more, see p. 24.

The March on Washington — ‘Married’ to a Conference

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he March on Washington was all that Van White’s father used to talk about when Van and his siblings were young. Van was just a year old when the march took place, on Aug. 28, 1963. His father, Sam, was in

college, and drove from Rochester, N.Y., to Washington, D.C., to participate in what would be one of the largest political rallies in American history, a gathering of several hundred thousand people that stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, and culminated with Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. ›

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Learn more about the Conference on Civil Rights and 50th- anniversary march at 50thanniversarymarch onwashington.com.

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