On
August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the nation's capital,
Washington, D.C., the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., gave what would be one of the most
important speeches in American history. Known to this day as his "I Have a Dream"
speech, King articulated a vision for the United States of America that we continue to this day
to strive to realize. This beautiful expression of a vision of a better future for all Americans
is all the remarkable for the indignities and brutalities that African Americans continued to
endure across much of the country. Together with his "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
penned from his jail cell earlier that year (specifically, April 16, 1963), King's statements
reflect an individual of unusually high integrity...
Sunday, 28 August 2011
In his "I Have a Dream" speech, what did Martin Luther King, Jr. ask his listeners to do?
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