Martin Luther King Jr. Born: January 15, 1929, Atlanta — Assassinated: April 4, 1968, Memphis. August 28, 1963 — Dr. King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and he spoke to America and the world.

“I Have A Dream”

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of hope to millions of slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the colored America is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the colored American is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination…