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45 years ago today, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom happened, a monumental moment for the civil rights movement, and the occasion of perhaps Martin Luther King, Jr's single most famous speech, "I have a Dream".
The March was organized by a coalition of diverse labor and civil rights groups, including the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African-American labor union chartered by the AFL, headed by Chicagoan and Pullman employee, A. Philip Randolph. As television stations carried the march, and King's speech, nationally, the civil rights movement and its young and charismatic leader were catapulted to prominence, although at the time his speech was not expected to be the highlight of the march.
You can download an MP3 of King's entire speech here.
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And tonight, the fulfillment of at least part of that dream.
Whatever your political bent, the notion that we have come so far in 45 years, from Jim Crow to Barack Obama is a fine and impressive thing.
It also shows what finishing high school, going to college, and hard work can do. The presidency, nor any occupation is owed to anyone.
We have MP3 highlights of the speech as well.
Ironic that so many americans, like that speech so much( including major corporations like McDonalds) because
out of all of his speeches, King liked that one the least. And and although he would be pleased with O'bama I don't think he would be as impressed with him as the rest of yall. And frankly given the shift of focuse that King began to take right before he was assasinated, I think he would be gravely disturbed at our "progress"