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250,000 Civil-Rights Supporters March On Washington

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched with 250,000 civil-rights supporters in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. At the Lincoln Memorial, King delivers one of the most famous speeches of the civil-rights movement by opening with what has become one of the most quoted lines in history: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character."

Posted:  2002-02-21  10:04:19 AM

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