"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
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
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil r
King in 1964
King's childhood home in Atlanta
The high school that King attended was named after African-American educator Booker T. Washington.
King received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951 (pictured in 2009).