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Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers 'I Have A Dream' Speech In Detroit

Monday, January 16, 2012

In honor of today's holiday, Craig takes listeners back with excerpts from the historic delivery of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech in it's first form at the Great March on Detroit, as he plays a recording of the event. It is June of 1963 and Dr. King stands not before the Lincoln Memorial, addressing an audience of 200 thousand, but in Detroit two months before, addressing a crowd of 500 thousand...

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Image courtesy of the Associated Press.