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50th anniversary Civil Rights Act march

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A few hundred marchers chant as they cross over I-75 on Collingwood Boulevard on the way to the rally site.

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Toledo city council member Tyrone Riley, speaking on the steps of the Toledo Museum of Art.

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State Senator Edna Brown, speaking on the steps of the Toledo Museum of Art.

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Ray Wood, president of the Toledo branch of the NAACP, speaking on the steps of the Toledo Museum of Art.

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James Thomas Newbern, 2, son of Darlene Newbern, NAACP Civil Rights and Housing Chair-Executive Committee member, at the event.

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Many in today's march carried this sign, which was an important theme in the Memphis, Tennessee sanitation workers strike which began in February, 1968.

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Keith Jordan, left, and Jim McGhee, both of Toledo, at the rally. Jordan's sign was a critical theme in the Memphis, Tennessee sanitation workers strike which began in February, 1968; McGhee's upraised hands underscore a chant at the march: '50 years of civil rights and we still don't have it right'.

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Many in today's march carried this sign, which was an important theme in the Memphis, Tennessee sanitation workers strike which began in February, 1968.

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Tirell Tippei, of Toledo in front of the Toledo Museum of Art.

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Darlene Newbern, NAACP Civil Rights and Housing Chair-Executive Committee member.

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