On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Over 200,000 people gathered in peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic eqality for African Americans, urging Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act.
On July 2, 1964 Congress at last enacted the Civil Rights Act which created a more positive step in reaching the promises of the Emancipation Proclamation decreed by President Abraham Lincoln 101 years earlier.
NPR Talk of the Nation broadcast from January, 2010.
The Speeches Collection (DVD)
This Is the Day: The March on Washington
The Heavens Might Crack by 
The Civil Rights Movement by 
100 Speeches That Changed the World by 
The Will of a People by 
Once in a Great City by Find journal/newspaper/magazine articles and video on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I have a Dream speech at the March on Washington.
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Photograph, Civil Rights March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963
Miscellaneous Subjects, Staff and Stringer Photographs
National Archives, Records of the U.S. Information Agency, Record Group 306 (ARC ID 542045)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/documented-rights/exhibit/section4/detail/washington-march1.html
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