President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will have fun the sixtieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic March on Washington by assembly with civil rights leaders Monday.

As a part of occasions deliberate by the White House, Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris will host the assembly, which can embody members of the King household. It will happen precisely 60 years after King met with President John Kennedy within the Oval Office on the morning of the march.

Mr. Biden additionally will host a night reception and supply remarks to commemorate the anniversary.

A rally and march are deliberate for Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial to mark the occasion. Organizers estimate that 75,000 individuals will attend, in keeping with a allow issued by the National Park Service.

King’s eldest son, Martin Luther King III, and different civil rights leaders will converse on the occasion.

More than 200,000 individuals from throughout the nation got here collectively in 1963 to march for equal rights. The gathering helped spark the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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