On this day in 1963 ....

[Ohiogal]

Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech before a crowd of some 250,000 people at the 1963 March on Washington.

https://www.history.com/topics/i-have-a-dream-speech

[Soxfan58]

1. Thanks for sharing that info.

[matt819]

2. Or as we are calling it now

Martin Luther King's protest against the Lincoln Memorial.

[SamKnause]

3. Well played !!!

[2naSalit]

4. Thank you for the reminder!

We should never forget the milestones in our history which resulted in the freedoms and rights we have now that we did not have before these events. This is something that should be in our collective conscience, right on the surface when formulating our speech in political discourse. (I know it is for many but there are too many for whom that is not the case.)

[Ohiogal]

5. Yes, especially our younger people

Who may take a lot of these rights for granted. It's important to know how hard they were fought for.

[2naSalit]

6. Unfortunately true

But that is, apparently, by design. An uninformed public is more easily controlled. Look at the steady decline in our education system since the late 1960s. Civics is not taught in most schools, it's now an elective... goes down from there until we end up with distzy devoss, the rest is obvious.

[Leith]

7. When I Taught English as a Second Language

It was one of the speeches I played for advanced students. It was to demonstrate how words created a picture, how cadence played a part in good form, and, in no small part, to spread MLK's good words to those who may not have heard them.