I Have A Dream Speech Crowd. Delivered his iconic i have a dream speech to the crowd that had gathered around the lincoln memorial for the aug. 28, 1963, march on washington.
King's speech (1963) was made 100 years after lincoln's emancipation proclamation (1863) that freed all slaves in rebel territories. It is a dream deeply rooted in the american dream. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
One phrase was i have a dream that my four little children will one.
Martin luther king's iconic i have a dream speech is full of allusions. We hold parallelism if you ever want to jazz up a crowd, use some parallelism in your sentences. His demonstrations and speeches laid the foundation for racial equality. Few speeches in the annals of american history have the power to stir up intense emotions like this speech during a pivotal moment of the civil rights movement.