Famous Faces: March on Washington 1963

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Famous Faces: March on Washington 1963, photos

Folk singers Joan Baez and Bob Dylan perform during a civil rights rally on August 28, 1963 in Washington D.C. (Photo by Rowland Scherman/National Archive/Newsmakers)

American folk singer and musician Joan Baez performs onstage for the crowd gathered on the Mall during the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., August 29, 1963. (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)

Folk and Blues singer Odetta from Alabama in an early 1963 photo. Later that year, she sang 'O Freedom' at the March. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Actor Marlon Brando at a civil rights rally August 28, 1963 in Washington. (photo by National Archive/Newsmakers)

Portrait of the American singing group Peter (Yarrow), Paul (Stookey) and Mary (Travers) on "The Jack Benny Program," circa 1963. They sang on the Mall in Washington and had top hits on the charts at the time. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

American singer Harry Belafonte addresses the crowds at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, 1963. (Photo by Kurt Severin/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Movie star Paul Newman, right, and Marlon Brando shake hands on June 11,1963 with members of group that marched from Berkeley to urge the California Legislature to act on a housing bill. The actors, pictured on the steps of the State Capitol, flew to Sacramento to urge passage of Gov. Brown's proposal to ban discrimination in private housing. Smiling marcher at left is Mrs. Arlene Slaughter of Oakland. Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, D-Los Angeles, is next to Brando. Both Brando and Newman later attended the March on Washington. (AP Photo)

American actor Paul Newman arrives at National Airport in Washington, D.C., Aug. 27, 1963. Newman was there to participate in the next day's Civil Rights March. (AP Photo)

Film director Joseph Mankiewicz, left; actor Charlton Heston, center; and author James Baldwin, after their arrival at National Airport in Washington, Aug. 27, 1963. They participated in the March on Washington the next day. (AP Photo)

Group which arrived at Washington's National Airport, Aug. 27, 1963, to participate in tomorrow's massive March On Washington civil rights demonstration at the nation's capital. From left: opera singer Marian Anderson; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP; actor Paul Newman; Rev. Robert Spike of the National Council of Churches in New York City; and actress Faye Emerson. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)

American blues and folk singer Josh White (1915 - 1969), shown in this 1956 photo, performed at the March on Washington in 1963. (Photo by Skippy Adelman/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Josephine Baker spoke at the March and said: "I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad." DALMAS/SIPA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Three members of the Senate made up part of the audience at the Lincoln Memorial ceremonies of the civil rights March on Washington in Washington on August 28, 1963. The senators are, from left: Phillip Hart, D-Mich., Wayne Morse, D-Ore., and William Proxmire, D-Wis. (AP Photo)

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Folk singers Joan Baez and Bob Dylan perform during a civil rights rally on August 28, 1963 in Washington D.C. (Photo by Rowland Scherman/National Archive/Newsmakers)

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