This year marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech.
Community gatherings commemorating the federal observance of Kings birthday will focus on those defining moments in the civil rights movement of that decade.
Read more here: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/street/2013/01/17/mlk-events-abound-as-famous-march-speech-to-turn-50/


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