Historic Voices Podcast: Global History And Culture

In this podcast episode, we feature Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speech I Have a Dream delivered on August 28, 1963. We are about to celebrate the national holiday in honor of Dr. King on January 16th. I thought it timely to release Dr. King’s on this day of remembrance and challenge to for us to recommit ourselves to the continuing fight for civil rights for all. The context for Dr. King’s speech was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in summer of 1963. The speech was delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before a quarter million civil rights supporters in Washington, D.C. Many historians declare the speech to be the defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement