The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the iconic speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28 in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before 260,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.He spoke for 16 minutes and strayed from his prepared remarks in what “would become one of the most famous orations of the civil rights movement — and of human history,” according to history.com.
In Birmingham, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference aimed to bring attention to segregation and economic disparities that Blacks faced. In August, thousands marched in Washington to support the passage of the Civil Rights Act that was stalled in Congress. They wanted “fair treatment and equal opportunity for black Americans.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.
On April 4, 1968, King was in Memphis, Tenn., with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to support a sanitation workers’ strike. He was shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel talking with Jesse Jackson and a musician, Ben Branch.King was killed by a single shot fired by James Earl Ray from a rooming house across the street.
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