The 'I Have a Dream' part was suggested by Mahalia Jackson as King neared the end of his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial. As the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday approaches, three mimeographed ...
Benoit Tessier Jan 18, 2025 Jan 18, 2025 Updated Jan 18, 2025 ...
I Have a Dream” — on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. But his D.C. performance wasn’t the speech’s premiere.
Sixty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln ...
"I Have a Dream" was delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States.
In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.
This is the reason that there were 36 columns designed into the Lincoln Memorial. Martin Luther King gave his 'I Have a Dream ...