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Martin Luther King Jr. I Have A Dream SpeechDuring Martin Luther King Jr's speech on August 28, 1963 for some reason he departed from his prepared speech to deliver his famous "I Have A Dream Speech" speech. Did he feel that he was not connecting with his audience? Or, was it the prompting from the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, who called out to Dr. King to Tell'em about the dream? Not even Dr. King himself could put a finger on the reason that he deviated from his planned speech. He simply said that all of a sudden this thing just came out of me. Whatever the reason he delivered an impromptu speech that has become one of the more famous speeches in American history. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up... live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal." In the 1950s in America racial barriers began to come down partly due to an increase in the activism of blacks, fighting for equal rights. A Baptist minister, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a very driving force in this push for racial equality. He and his followers believed in non-violent marchs and protests. In 1963, they focused their efforts on Birmingham, Alabama. In August, 1963 Dr. King helped organize a massive march on Washington, DC. They marched down the Washington Mall from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Dr. King deliverd the closing speech which was carried live on major TV networks. His famous speech is credited with prompting the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1965, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1963, Dr. King was named Man of the Year by TIME magazine. A draft of his original speech, "Normalcy, Never Again" is housed in the Morehouse College Robert W. Woodruff Library. The speech was honored by the Library of Congress by adding it to the United States National Recording Registry, in 2004. An inscribed marble pedestal was dedicated by the National Park service, in 2003, to commemorate the location of Dr. King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial. This is indeed a speech that changed history and should be read and studied by anyone who did not live during those troubled times. |
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