"I Have a Dream"
By Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement which freed millions of slaves in 1863
King examines that: "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free
Images from Washington where tens of thousands of marchers converged on
Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Reverend Martin
Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech and to urge action on jobs,
voting rights and gun violence
The speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address
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