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As the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s trusted counsel ... the “I Have a Dream” address delivered at the 1963 March on Washington. Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, once ...
Martin Luther King III, left, and Arndrea Waters King ... said the impact was immediate in some ways. “After the March on Washington, you had some of the organizers, some of the leaders of ...
FILE - In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and ...
Each August, they rewatch the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s rapturous address to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Even if the civil rights icon’s legacy is closer to the ...
Six decades ago, an estimated 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream ...
After a summer of discontent and disaffection, we returned to the nation’s capital Saturday to mark 60 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington. We returned with a ...
An oral history of the March on Washington, 60 years after MLK’s dream Organizers of Saturday’s March on Washington estimate 75,000 people will attend, according to a permit issued Tuesday by ...
Explore the series: MLK’s ‘I have a dream’ speech looms large 60 years later To understand the March on Washington, you have to understand the year 1963, said Clarence B. Jones, King's ...
His only grandchild was among those who gathered on the National Mall Saturday. Martin Luther King Jr.'s only grandchild was among those who gathered on the National Mall Saturday to honor the ...
The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech — and thus as a crowning moment for the long-term civil rights activism of ...
“After the March on Washington, you had some of the organizers ... In the eyes of King’s older son, Martin Luther King III, “Many of us, and I certainly am one, thought that we would ...