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August 28, 1963: MLK's “I Have a Dream” Speech Learn More August 28, 1963: MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech Learn More Suggested Readings Taylor B. Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998). Clayborne Carson, ed., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, J r. (New York: Warner Books, 1998). Michael Eric Dyson, I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Free Press, 2000). Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987). David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: Morrow, 1986). John A. Kirk, Martin Luther King Jr.: Profiles in Power (New York: Longman, 2004). Transcript and audio available on AmericanRhetoric.com: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm Partial Video on CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3992238n “Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1009 “I Have a Dream Speech” at the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/northeast/nyc/exhibits/mlk.html PBS NewsHour Extra Lesson. “The March on Washington and its Impact.” http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/history/dream_8-20.html National Parks Service “We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement.” http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/dc1.htm www.todayingeorgiahistory.org August 28, 1963: MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech Image Credits Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Corbis Images © Bettmann/CORBIS Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. University of Memphis Image courtesy of Special Collections, University of Memphis LBJ gives MLK Jr pen used in Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints and signing Voting Rights Act Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-120214 A Philip Randolph Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-126849 Martin Luther King speaking, Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & right hand extended Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126559 March on Washington, A Young Getty Images Getty Images Marcher March on Washington CORBIS © Bettmann/CORBIS LBJ signing Civil Rights Bill Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126463 MLK Lincoln Memorial Plaque , National Park Service Courtesy of the National Park still image from interactive tour Service www.todayingeorgiahistory.org August 28, 1963: MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech Image Credits March on Washington - aerial National Archives and Records National Archives and Records Administration Administration Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. giving Getty Images Time & Life Pictures/Getty his I Have a Dream speech Images Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Getty Images Time & Life Pictures/Getty (R) addressing rally. Images Time Magazine Jan 1964 - MLK Time Magazine Time Magazine Man of the Year March on Washington, showing National Archives and Records National Archives and Records Lincoln Monument Administration Administration, HPC-001915 Reverend Dr. Martin Luther Library of Congress Library of Congress, Prints & King, Jr. Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-116775 www.todayingeorgiahistory.org .
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