One of the most popular activities of Martin Luther King Day, and remembers playing his famous "I Have a Dream Speech" given August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC (Click here to listen to speeches in the format of MP3)
During his speech, 17 minutes, taking place during March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the king calls for racial equality and eliminate diskriminatsii.Rech considered a turning point in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their nature," said the king, more than 200,000 human rights activists meeting in Washington.
It was originally called "normality, Never Again", according to Martin Luther King on the Internet.
The site says the first draft is never included the phrase "I Have a Dream." The king would like to add that "I have a dream" phrase when it deviated from the prepared text of his and began to improvise, according to the website.
That would be occurred after the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson called the king of the crowd, "Tell them about the dream, Martin." Then the King departed from his prepared speech and instead began to preach, "punctuating his points with" I Have a Dream "," according to Martin Luther King on the Internet.
It was one of the more than 2500 King delivered between 1957 and his assassination, April 4, 1968, reported at the Nobel Prize. King received the Nobel Prize in 1964.
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