The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom held on August 28, 1963, brought a quarter of a million people from all across America, most of them Black, to the Lincoln Memorial. Some of the civil rights organizations involved in organizing the march included the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP, and the National Urban League. Many marchers demanded federal action above and beyond the civil rights bill introduced by the Kennedy administration earlier that year, including a national minimum wage, job training programs for unemployed people and immediate school desegregation. Their efforts to bring greater public attention to the economic and civil rights issues facing Black communities nationwide were aided by massive press and live television coverage. Some of the artists who performed during the program included best-selling singer Mahalia Jackson and the contralto Marian Anderson. Anderson previously sang at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to perform at Constitution Hall due to her race.