08/10/30 21:31:14
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The year 1963 was the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation.
It was truly a great year in American history and in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Despite opposition from the governors of Alabama and Mississippi,
the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, authorized federal marshals to help a few black students to enter at the University of Mississippi and the University of Alabama.
“Bull” Connor, the head of the police department in Birmingham, Alabama, ordered his officers to turn fire hoses and police dogs on young demonstrators;
as television cameras captured this horrible scene, the nation gasped in disbelief and revulsion.
Medgar Evers, a thirty-seven-year-old NAACP field secretary in Jackson, Mississippi, was murdered on his front porch on June 12.
Riots occurred throughout the summer. The nation stood on the brink of racial civil war.
It needed a prophet who could help see through the smoke left by gunpowder and bombs.
Martin Luther King, Jr., who published Why We Can’t Wait at this time, was the prophet of the hour.
Although many of the phrases and themes that appear in “I Have a Dream” had often been repeated by Dr. King, this is his most well-known speech.
He delivered it before the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, as the keynote address of the March on Washington, D. C., for Civil Rights.
Television Cameras allowed the entire nation to hear and see him call for justice and freedom.
Mrs. Coretta King once said, “At that moment it seemed as if the Kingdom of God appeared.
But it only lasted for a moment.”