LAD #26 MLK's "I Have a Dream' Speech Summary

At the Lincoln Memorial in March 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. had his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech surrounded by several hundred thousands of people who were all there to support his main cause, civil rights. This speech was about how one day we could all envision equality as something similar. MLK felt as if The Emancipation Proclamation wasn't doing the African American community justice and as a result they were still being oppressed. He encouraged all of the negroes to stand up to racism along with white americans to beat racism together. And that one day his children will be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin