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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/speech-the-story-behind-kings-dream by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 1961] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/speech-the-story-behind-kings-dream by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 1961] | ||
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement and remains a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality. | Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement and remains a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality. | ||
=====Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis===== | |||
[https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/apr/4 by eJI 4/4/1968] | |||
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King was in the city to speak on his growing Poor People's Campaign and to support an economic protest by Black sanitation workers. | |||
