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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.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., addresses marchers during his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.
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 ...
[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.
"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.
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!"
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.
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]