The city of Washington, D.C. holds a symbolic place in American culture as a space to voice a divers

The city of Washington, D.C. holds a symbolic place in American culture as a space to voice a diversity of ideas, views and agendas. @npr​ has reported on the political tradition of marching on Washington since 1971 when All Things Considered (ATC) debuted with a sound portrait of one of the largest anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in history.

We’re listening back through the archives and rediscovering stories about marches on Washington that reflect NPR’s original mission to represent a “genuine diversity of regions, values, and cultural and ethnic minorities which comprise American society [and]… speak with many voices and many dialects.”

Image: U.S. Information Agency / National Archives & Records Administration / 1963.