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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.
Full text at the BBC; Video of "I Have a Dream" speech, from LearnOutLoud.com "I Have a Dream" Text and Audio from AmericanRhetoric.com "I Have A Dream" speech – Dr. Martin Luther King with music by Doug Katsaros on YouTube; Deposition concerning recording of the "I Have a Dream" speech; Lyrics of the traditional spiritual "Free at Last"
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]
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.
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.
The song consists of an integrated sample of the "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr. [4 ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington D.C. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. August 28, 2024 will mark the 61st anniversary of Martin ...
The Walk to Freedom had two main purposes. The first and main purpose of the march "… was to speak out against segregation and the brutality that met civil rights activists in the South while at the same time addressing concerns of African Americans in the urban North: inequality in hiring practices, wages, education, and housing."