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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the "I Have A Dream" Speech Livestream & 
 Discussion\n\nDate and time: Mon, January 17, 2022 @ 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM 
 PST\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-the-i-have-a-dream-speech-livestream-tickets-234150800347\n\n\nLet's 
 travel back in time to Washington, DC on August 28, 1963, for the "I Have a 
 Dream" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\n\nHave you ever listened to 
 the entire 17-minute "I Have a Dream" speech? Unfortunately, most people 
 have only heard portions of it.\n\nOur livestream history program will 
 cover the historical context leading up to the March on Washington, DC, and 
 the dramatic events that followed. The highlight of our program will be a 
 broadcast of the entire 17-minute "I Have a Dream" speech.\n\nWe also 
 invite you to join us in an optional online discussion with fellow 
 participants via Zoom.\n\nYour host for this program is Robert Kelleman, 
 the founder/director of the non-profit community organization Washington, 
 DC History & Culture. 
 \n____________________________________________________________\n\nThe March 
 on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963\n\nThe March on Washington for Jobs 
 and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great 
 March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, August 28, 
 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic 
 rights of African Americans. At the march, final speaker Dr. Martin Luther 
 King Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic 
 "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism.\n\nThe 
 march was organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, who built an 
 alliance of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations that came 
 together under the banner of "jobs and freedom." Estimates of the number of 
 participants varied from 200,000 to 300,000, but the most widely cited 
 estimate is 250,000 people. Observers estimated that 75–80% of the 
 marchers were black. The march was one of the largest political rallies for 
 human rights in United States history. Walter Reuther, president of the 
 United Auto Workers, was the most integral and highest-ranking white 
 organizer of the march.\n\nThe march is credited with helping to pass the 
 Civil Rights Act of 1964. It preceded the Selma Voting Rights Movement, 
 when national media coverage contributed to passage of the Voting Rights 
 Act of 1965 that same 
 year.\n\n____________________________________________________________\n\n"I 
 Have a Dream" Speech, 1963\n\n"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was 
 delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, Martin 
 Luther King Jr., during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 
 August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights 
 and an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil 
 rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, 
 D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement and 
 among the most iconic speeches in American history.\n\nBeginning with a 
 reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared millions of 
 slaves free in 1863, King said "one hundred years later, the Negro still is 
 not free". Toward the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared 
 text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme "I have a dream", 
 prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" In 
 this part of the speech, which most excited the listeners and has now 
 become its most famous, King described his dreams of freedom and equality 
 arising from a land of slavery and hatred. \n\nJon Meacham writes that, 
 "With a single phrase, Martin Luther King Jr. joined Jefferson and Lincoln 
 in the ranks of men who've shaped modern America". The speech was ranked 
 the top American speech of the 20th century in a 1999 poll of scholars of 
 public address. The speech has also been described as having "a strong 
 claim to be the greatest in the English language of all 
 time".\n____________________________________________________________\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/12/31/18847006.php
SUMMARY:"I Have A Dream" Speech by MLK Jr. Historical Livestream & Discussion
LOCATION:Online event via Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/12/31/18847006.php
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