All Posts Tagged With: "Martin Luther King Jr."
Paul Finkelman on the election of Barack Obama
[Portions of this blog appeared on Huffington Post and the African American Studies Center of Oxford University Press and are published here with permission of OUP.]
Very few presidential elections change America. The elections of 1800, 1828, 1860, and 1932 come to mind as the most obvious examples of elections that truly transformed the nation. They [...]
Doc of the Day: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition address
On September 18, 1895, Booker T. Washington delivered his Atlanta Exposition address during the opening ceremonies of the Cotton States and International Exposition. The address, which ran a little over ten minutes, propelled the previously unknown principal of Tuskegee Institute, a small black college in rural Alabama, into the national spotlight. By almost any measure, [...]
18Sep2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Doc of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of some 250,000 people at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Delegations of civil rights supporters from cities across the United States joined together for this massive one-day protest. They had been summoned by the veteran [...]
28Aug2008 | mdblogger | 2 comments | Continued