• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and  the Civil Rights Movement

    Martin Luther King Jr

    National Historic Site Georgia

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Visitors at Children of Courage Exhibit

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Did You Know?

Dr. King Delivering I Have Dream Speech

August 28, 1963.  The largest protest demonstration in U.S. history occurred at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., where 250,000 blacks and whites gathered to lobby for passage of sweeping civil rights measures by Congress.  Dr. King thrilled the crowd with his "I Have A Dream" oration.