Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Martin Luther King Jr. delivering the speech at the 1963 Washington, D.C., Civil Rights March. The speech was drafted with the assistance of Stanley Levison and Clarence Benjamin Jones [27] in Riverdale, New York City. Jones has said that "the logistical preparations for the march were so burdensome that the speech was not a priority for us ...
Martin Luther King Jr. at the podium on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963. The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., comprise an extensive catalog of American writing and oratory – some of which are internationally well-known, while others remain unheralded and await rediscovery.
On July 20, 2020, the NAACP, one of the original organizers of the 1963 march, announced that it would commemorate it by organizing another rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, in which King's oldest son, Martin Luther King III, would join civil rights leaders and the families of black men and women who died as a result of police ...
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 ...
An introduction by Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., states that Gandhi and King each "discovered an idea whose time had long since come," [8] but that only with Gandhi as a Political Strategist do we have a single volume providing "an in-depth analysis of Gandhi's political strategy and its relevance for social struggle ...
Sixty years after his father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King III and his wife, Arndrea, argue the work of those who marched on August 28, 1963, is not complete.
1 Gandhi. 6 comments. 2 Defenders of the literal interpretation. 5 comments. 3 There is another interpretation. 2 comments. 4 And an interpretation as a challenge to ...