On this day, Dr. Rev Martin Luther King made his speech that shocked the world on August 28, 1963. “I have a dream” Speech on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. There were over 250,000 civil rights supporters at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement. Here the speech in entirety.
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The March on Washington Speech, known as “I Have a Dream Speech”, has been shown to have had several versions, written at several different times. It has no single version draft, but is an amalgamation of several drafts, and was originally called “Normalcy, Never Again”. Little of this, and another “Normalcy Speech”, ended up in the final draft. A draft of “Normalcy, Never Again” is housed in the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center and Morehouse College.
