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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so famous that it often eclipses his other speeches. King's greatest ...
“I’m afraid that Martin Luther King’s speech drowned out everything. It was so eloquent that it kind of surpassed every other speech.” President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will ...
The speech King gave 60 years ago in Washington ... Baldwin, author of “The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.” “Dr . King meant mutual acceptance, interpersonal living ...
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. (AP Photo) What is etched into people’s memory ...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech may be the most well-known, and important, speech in U.S. history. When I had to recite a part of that speech in second grade, my portion was ...
The draft of MLK's most famous speech lacked its most famous lines. The 'I Have a Dream' part was suggested by Mahalia Jackson as King neared the end of his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
Martin Luther King Jr. had no way of knowing that his speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis on April 3, 1968, would be his last, so there is no real reason we should examine that text any ...
A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin ...
Related: 60 years later, MLK’s speech at WMU still resonates with those who attended Recorded and broadcast live by WMUK, Garrard Macleod, the station’s 29-year-old program manager at the time ...