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On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister [2] Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.
Liberals and conservatives tended to embrace the March, but focused mostly on King's "I Have a Dream" speech and the legislative successes of 1964 and 1965. [34] The mass media identified King's speech as a highlight of the event and focused on this oration to the exclusion of other aspects.
A visitor looks closely at the original copy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in ...
The famous "I Have a Dream" address was delivered in August 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Less well-remembered are the early sermons of that young, 25-year-old pastor who first began preaching at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954. [3]
Aug. 28—As Martin Luther King Jr. addressed perhaps 250,000 people spread out before the steps of the Lincoln Monument 60 years ago today, he began with that most American of topics: money. A ...
Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington. 1946: The Second Bayeux speech, delivered by General Charles de Gaulle describing the postwar constitution of France. 1947: A speech to the Commonwealth by the then Princess Elizabeth on her 21st Birthday, broadcast from South ...
August 28, 2024 will mark the 61st anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which he delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 in Washington, D.C.