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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.
Lyrics of the traditional spiritual "Free at Last" MLK: Before He Won the Nobel; Archived January 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine – slideshow by Life magazine; Chiastic outline of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech; I Have a Dream Summary (Class 12) I Have A Dream Archived February 1, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
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 ...
"Why We Must Go to Washington,"; speech by Martin Luther King Jr. at a staff retreat at Ebenezer Baptist Church, February 15, 1968 Atlanta, GA The only reference to this speech is located in the SCLC archives for MLK speaks, the speech in its entirety ran during Episodes 6807 & 6808. [142] February 16 "Things are not Right in this Country"
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 ...
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!"
The speech was titled "Let Freedom Ring". [2] Historian Drew Hansen has opined that Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized from this speech in creating his own celebrated " I Have a Dream " speech, noting that many of the motifs and tropes were part of a common language.
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ... ― Martin Luther King Jr. “The function of freedom is to free someone else ...