Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963, today marks the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, I Have A Dream: a visionary design for civil rights and a continuing inspiration for the creation of freedom and justice. text transcription + 200,000 March for Civil Rights in Orderly Washington Rally; President Sees Gain for Negro E. W. Kensworthy, The New York Times: 29 August 1963
Johnson’s Dream, Obama’s Speech Robert A. Caro, The New York Times: 28 August 2008