Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers Iconic Speech

Over 250,000 people joined the March on Washington in August 1963 to call for African-Americans’ strengthened civil rights. It was also when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his moving I Have a Dream speech, which had become iconic and historic. The piece, part improvised, part scripted, stirred the emotions of the crowd.

The speech tackled what life had been for people of color and King’s dream of a future where a person’s skin color wouldn’t matter. However, despite the minister’s plea, discrimination remains to be a systemic problem nowadays. In 2020, George Floyd’s death sparked outrage, zooming in on the age-old issue.