I Have a Dream

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his speech at the DC Civil Rights March.

"I Have a Dream" is the name of a speech Martin Luther King, Jr. gave on August 28, 1963 while standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.. In his speech, he spoke of his wish for the future. His wish was that people of different races could live together peacefully in the United States. The speech was given to over 200,000 supporters. He spoke of the discrimination that the black men have faced even though they were to be treated as equals after the great Abraham Lincoln signed the momentous decree; the Emancipation Proclamation. The speech is very famous. Many have called it "the best speech given in the 20th century".

I Have A Dream Media

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  View from the Lincoln Memorial toward the Washington Monument on August 28, 1963

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  Leaders of the March on Washington photographed in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln on August 28, 1963: (sitting L-R) Whitney Young, Cleveland Robinson, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., and Roy Wilkins; (standing L-R) Mathew Ahmann, Joachim Prinz, John Lewis, Eugene Carson Blake, Floyd McKissick, and Walter Reuther

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  King at the Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C.

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  The location on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial from which King delivered the speech is commemorated with this inscription

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  Then President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton walk past President Lincoln's statue to participate in the 2013 50th anniversary ceremony of the historic March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech

Other websites

• "I Have a Dream" Text and Audio from AmericanRhetoric.com
• "Free At Last"
• SouthCoastToday.com: A read on a 4th, 5th and 6th graders' take on Martin

A Simple English Video about the "I Have a Dream" Speech