Part 1 of "I Have a Dream" was posted on Saturday. But it was exactly 50 years ago today that Martin Luther King, Jr. gave that speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. USA Today compared Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with King's Dream:
Today, Presidents Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton participated in the celebration ceremonies on those same steps.
The Economist featured MLK this week:
- Lincoln in 1863 used 272 words in a 3 minute speech
- King in 1963 used 1,652 words in a 17 minute speech
Today, Presidents Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton participated in the celebration ceremonies on those same steps.
The Economist featured MLK this week:
- His name adorns schools, streets and bridges across the Nation.
- America has changed beyond recognition over the past half century:
- then, Blacks could be lynched if they even tried to register to vote
- Blacks were forced to use inferior drinking fountains and sit at the back of buses
- 60% of Black women with jobs were domestic servants
- inter-racial marriage was illegal in many states until 1967 when the Supreme Court deemed anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional ...24% of Black men now marry outside their race
- today, the President of the United States Barack Obama is Black and the Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick are Black....but the USA is only 14% Black and Massachusetts Black population is at less than 7%
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