His Struggle On Dec. 21, 1956, King rode the first desegregated bus in Montgomery, Ala. His leadership of a black boycott drew national attention to the city's segregated facilities.In 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr., center front, led a march in Alabama from Selma to the capital at Montgomery to petition for black voting rights in that state.“I Have A Dream” On Aug. 28, 1963, King was the principal speaker at a giant civil rights march on Washington. His eloquent "I Have a Dream" address was the high point of the demonstration.I say to you today my friends - so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." Martin Luther King, Jr., shown giving his "I have a dreamI have a dream" speech in Washington, D.C., in 1963, was one of the great public speakers of the late 20th century.…….when we allow freedom ring - when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children - black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics - will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" The keynote speech at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, King gave the address from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to about 250,000 people assembled before him. The speech was also broadcast on TV and published in...
