By: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date: 08/28/1963
Location: Learning Centre: Freedom, Justice
The great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most famous speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. "I Have A Dream"
"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration of freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.
