In this speech, King speaks about how America has failed to live up to its promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all its citizens. (You can listen to here, or read it here.) Others heard it, or parts of it, on the evening news. Approximately 250,000 people heard it at the National Mall-the largest audience for a Washington rally up to that time. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, given on August 28, 1963, as the culmination of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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