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The March on Washington in 1963 brought 250,000 people to the National Mall and is famous for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. The location on the steps where King delivered the speech is commemorated with this inscription.
Delivering the "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 Washington, D.C. Civil Rights March. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the Civil Rights Movement, was an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, and advocated for using nonviolent resistance, inspired by ...
The following monuments and memorials were removed during the George Floyd protests, mainly due to their connections to racism.The majority are in the United States and mostly commemorate the Confederate States of America (CSA), but some monuments were also removed in other countries, for example the statues of slave traders in the United Kingdom.
Approaching two years since being vandalized, the Martin Luther King Jr. statue is back at the Freedom Corner. Located at the intersection of Second Street and Capitol Avenue, a crew of workers ...
The monument, which the mayor called “a symbol of hope and justice,” stood on a street where the civil rights icon had visited in 1963.
A man was arrested Monday on criminal damage to state supported property charge after the Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Springfield was vandalized. MLK statue at Freedom Corner vandalized ...
On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom used the area for its Civil Rights rally. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered to a crowd of 250,000 people. On October 21, 1967, 100,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters met at the pool and memorial to begin the March on the Pentagon.
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