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"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.
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]
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 ...
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.
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.
It was on this day in 1963 that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech as part of the March on Washington. So how much do you know about the speech and the events ...
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Leaders of the march) King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 Washington D.C. Civil Rights March.Approaching the end of his prepared speech, King departed from his prepared text [13] for a partly improvised peroration on the theme of "I have a dream", possibly prompted by Mahalia Jackson's repeated cry, "Tell them about the dream, Martin!"
From his oddly prophetic final speech to his inspirational Selma talk, these are some of MLK's famous — but often overshadowed — speeches. 8 powerful speeches from Martin Luther King Jr. that ...