August 1963
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The following events occurred in August 1963:
August 28, 1963: 250,000 March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech
August 30, 1963: The Moscow-Washington hot line becomes operational (pictured, the original U.S. terminal, at the Johnson Presidential Library
August 30, 1963: Philips introduces the cassette tape recorder
I Have a Dream
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"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1
August 1963
…physical chemist At the "March on Washington" (officially, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom), Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000 people. The "Career Girls Murders" were committed as Janice Wylie, a…
Martin Luther King Jr. after delivering the speech
Martin Luther King Jr. in 1962
View from the Lincoln Memorial east across the National Mall, toward the Washington Monument
Leaders of the march in front of Abraham Lincoln's statue at the memorial; King is in the front row, second from right