Barack Obama, the first black US president, said ensuring economic opportunity was "our great unfinished business"
Barack Obama gave his address at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC almost 50 years to the minute after Martin Luther King Jr culminated the march with his celebrated I Have a Dream speech The time - 15:00 local time (19:00 GMT) - was marked by ringing bells
Barack Obama was joined on the stage by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, who also spoke
Members of Martin Luther King's family and veterans of the march also spoke
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