Fifty years since March on Washington, partisan divide persists
Posted on AllSides August 26th, 2013
From The Left
![](https://www.allsides.com/sites/default/files/styles/news_large_image/public/130825095145-mlk-1963-march-story-top.jpg?itok=-FOy3dTk)
The fiftieth anniversary of the historic March on Washington, celebrated in the nation's capital this week, is being marked with separate events by Republicans and Democrats as a sharp partisan divide persists on issues of race in America.
Half a century after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" address, which became a crucial moment in the struggle for civil rights in the U.S., a new national poll indicates a left-right divide over whether King's dream has been reached. And political issues that involve race, including voting rights and...