
Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waved to supporters on the Mall during the "March on Washington" on Aug. 28, 1963.
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King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the rally.
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King acknowledged the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument grounds, before marching to the Lincoln Memorial.
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King (center left, with arms raised) marched along Constitution Avenue with other civil rights protesters.
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The rally on the National Mall would become the defining civil rights gathering in the United States.
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Civil Rights leaders posed in the Lincoln Memorial during the "March on Washington."
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King (third from left) and other civil rights leaders met with President John F. Kennedy at the White House.
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