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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. [2] In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
[110] [111] Dr. King gave variations of his "The Other America" speech over the final 12 months of his life; [110] for example, see below for his 14 March 1968 speech at Grosse Pointe Farms, MI. April 16 Interview on CBS's Face the Nation: A combative interview, important, for its proceeding Dr. King's Beyond Vietnam Speech.
Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta; he was the second of three children born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King (née Williams). [6] [7] [8] Alberta's father, Adam Daniel Williams, [9] was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, [8] and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. [10]
But it was Dr. King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech that immediately took its place as one of the greatest in U.S. history. SEE MORE: 8 Martin Luther King Jr. quotes that raise eyebrows instead ...
In 1964, King was 35 years old and the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.At the time of his honor, it had been a year since his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, and the country just ...
August 28, 2025, will mark the 62nd 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 ...
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 ...
I Have a Dream", a 1963 speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. that concludes "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" "Free at Last", a section of James Furman's oratorio I Have a Dream, based on Dr. King's speech; Free at Last, the 2002 theme of the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia