Monday marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Below is a transcript of his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. NPR's Talk of the Nation ...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before 250,000 people on the National Mall in Washington 54 years ago today. He spoke from a prepared text. He was nervous. The speech wasn't flat. It just wasn't ...

BOSTON - On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Sixty years later, it continues to inspire. "Dr. King ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The last part of the speech took less time to deliver than it takes to boil an egg, but “I Have A Dream” is one of American history’s most famous orations and most inspiring. On Aug.

Clarence B Jones was Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr's lawyer, speechwriter, and close friend from 1960 until his assassination ...

The letter in Wichita shows an early draft that might have informed some of the civil rights leader's most famous speeches. Nestled in the archives of the Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, there’s ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- In August of 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech outside the gates of then-segregated Girard College in Philadelphia. His voice echoed across the city and nation, he ...

A key figure in the civil rights movement, Jones spent the last two decades of his life teaching at Stanford and the ...

Clarence B. Jones, a former speechwriter and confidante of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who helped pen his famous “I ...

“Our father lived a life of conscience,” his family said in a statement ...