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External audio. I Have a Dream, August 28, 1963, Educational Radio Network [1] " 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. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights ...
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. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent African-American clergyman, a leader in the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize ...
Todd S. Purdum, Vanity Fair, Feb. 2011 Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford organized and hosted a pre-inaugural ball at the D.C. Armory on the eve of Inauguration day, January 19, 1961, considered one of the biggest parties ever held in the history of Washington, D.C. Sinatra recruited many Hollywood stars who performed and attended, and went as far as convincing Broadway theatres to suspend their ...
A public celebration of life will be held Thursday for Saralee Perel, who wrote a Cape Cod Times column for nearly 30 years and was deeply connected to her community and her readers.. The memorial ...
The president then launched into a 20-minute speech in which he called for a "new era of responsibility." Read the full text of that speech below: My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by ...
A memorial service (or celebration of life) is a funerary ceremony that is performed without the remains of the deceased person. [3] In both a closed casket funeral [4] and a memorial service, photos of the deceased representing stages of life would be displayed on an altar. Relatives or friends would give out eulogies in both services as well.
Mandisa's friends and family gathered at Brentwood Baptist Church in Nashville for her celebration of life over the weekend, in a ceremony filled with gospel music and punctuated by emotional ...
Following his victory in the 2008 United States presidential election, then- President-elect Barack Obama gave his victory speech [1] at Grant Park in his home city of Chicago, [2] on November 4, 2008, before an estimated crowd of 240,000. [3][4] Viewed on television and the Internet by millions of people around the globe, Obama's speech ...