Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On this 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, we will be hearing many quotations from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s immortal “I Have a Dream Speech,” and much about what happened that day in and around the Lincoln Memorial. That, of course, is right and proper. But more than that, it is incumbent upon those of us who were alive then to remind those who weren’t what it was all about and why it was even necessary. Because that day was about more than just soaring and inspirational rhetoric.
