Martin Luther King

"I Have a Dream" is a public speech given by Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, on August 28, 1963

August 28  Martin Luther King

"I Have a Dream" is a public speech given by Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In his speech, King advocated for civil and economic rights, as well as the abolition of racism in the United States. The speech, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to over 250,000 civil rights supporters, was a defining moment in the civil rights movement and one of the most iconic speeches in American history.

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