Martin Luther King's Dream (TRIH ep 359)
1963 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook record on location at the Lincoln Memorial to examine Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and the 28 August 1963 March on Washington. They set the speech in context: Jim Crow segregation, post‑war change, Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Birmingham campaign (and King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail). The episode details the march’s organization (A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin), controversy over leadership and...
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