Jan. 21, 2008
Martin Luther King Day Celebrated Across the U.S.
'I Have a Dream' Speech Highlight of the March on Washington 45 years ago
By Tony Seaton
Huntingtonnews.net City Editor
"No one could remember an invading army quite as gentle as the two hundred thousand civil-rights marchers who occupied Washington today...The sweetness and patience of the crowd may have set some sort of national high-water mark in mass decency." wrote Russell Baker in the New York Times of the March on Washington in the summer of 1963. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech that day helped raise public consciousness of the civil rights movement while establishing King as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. No doubt it also played a role in convincing the United States government to mark Martin Luther King day as a national holiday in 1986. Enjoy and reflect on what that has meant for America by listening to a short clip of his speech set to a montage of photos, some from that day, by clicking on the picture above.
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'I Have a Dream' Speech Highlight of the March on Washington 45 years ago
 Martin Luther King's Command Performance Before Nearly a Quarter Million People 1963 |
By Tony Seaton
Huntingtonnews.net City Editor
"No one could remember an invading army quite as gentle as the two hundred thousand civil-rights marchers who occupied Washington today...The sweetness and patience of the crowd may have set some sort of national high-water mark in mass decency." wrote Russell Baker in the New York Times of the March on Washington in the summer of 1963. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech that day helped raise public consciousness of the civil rights movement while establishing King as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. No doubt it also played a role in convincing the United States government to mark Martin Luther King day as a national holiday in 1986. Enjoy and reflect on what that has meant for America by listening to a short clip of his speech set to a montage of photos, some from that day, by clicking on the picture above.
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