In his campaign for racial equality, King gave hundreds of speeches, and was arrested more than 20 times. Document: The following is the exact text of the spoken speech, transcribed from recordings. Under King's leadership, the SCLC promoted nonviolent resistance to segregation, often in the form of marches and boycotts. The next year, King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. In 1957, he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC), which became a leading civil rights organization. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed cheering, and all flesh shall see it together.
Like his father and grandfather, King studied theology and became a Baptist pastor. Although the words 'I have a dream,' are most widely known for being part of his August 1963, speech, King first spoke them months earlier in Detroit, according to CNN.
King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, in 1929. Kings speech, transcribed from the recording itself: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the.
His speech became famous for its recurring phrase “I have a dream.” He imagined a future in which “the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners" could "sit down together at the table of brotherhood,” a future in which his four children are judged not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." King's moving speech became a central part of his legacy. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., took the podium at the March on Washington and addressed the gathered crowd, which numbered 200,000 people or more.