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).
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1963
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)