The last part of the Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at the Lincoln Memorial, “I Have A Dream,” is one of American history’s most famous and inspiring orations.
, as well as the fair housing law, Norton said. “It would have been very hard for Congress to ignore 250,000 people coming from all over the country, from every member’s district.”
“After the March on Washington, you had some of the organizers, some of the leaders of the march actually meeting with [President] John Kennedy and [Vice President] Lyndon Johnson, to talk more strategically about legislation. So it wasn’t just a dream. It was about a plan and then putting that plan into action,” Bryant said.
That focus has done a “disservice to King” and his overall message, Eig said, because “we forget about the challenging part of that speech where he says that there are insufficient funds in the vaults of opportunity in this nation.”probably varies within generations, but a democracy “is always going to be a work in progress. I think particularly as ideas of citizenship and democracy and definitions among different groups change over the course of time.
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