On #ThisDayInHistory in 1963, in front of a crowd of nearly 250,000 people spread across the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. #DidYouKnow King almost didn’t deliver what is now the most famous part of the speech? He had debuted the phrase, “I have a dream,” in his speeches at least nine months before the March on Washington and used it several times since then. His advisers discoura

60 years ago, on #ThisDayInHistory, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to over 250,000 people in Washington, D.C. at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/i-have-a-dream-speech | HISTORY