MLK Fuels Our Dreams
1963 March on Washington meets 2023.
Martin Luther King Jr
Document: MLK’s ‘I Have A Dream’ Speech
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of …
March On Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a historic event that took place on August 28, 1963. It was a massive civil rights demonstration that brought over 250,000 people to the nation’s capital to demand equal rights for all Americans. The March on Washington was organized by a coalition of civil rights groups, …
Today In History – August 6
August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
