Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington, galvanizing the American civil rights movement.
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech to over 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. King's soaring rhetoric — "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" — became the defining moment of the American civil rights movement. The speech helped build public support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
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