| On August 28, 1963, about 250,000 people marched
in Washington, D.C. It was there, on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial and in front of the Reflecting Pool, that Martin Luther
King, Jr. delivered his most famous speech. Amazingly, around
60,000 of the marchers were not black, but white.
In his "I Have a Dream" speech, King described an America in
which everyone was considered equal and treated fairly. The place
where Dr. King's speech was given, the Lincoln Memorial, also
helped to reflect Dr. King's message. One hundred years earlier, in
1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave his Emancipation
Proclamation.
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