Modern Era · North America · Politics
1963
March on Washington, I Have a Dream
August 28, 1963
A quarter million people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to demand jobs and freedom. From the platform Martin Luther King Jr. began reading a prepared speech, then set his text aside after Mahalia Jackson called out: Tell them about the dream, Martin. He did. The speech would echo through American memory.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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