Civil rights protesters sing and clap their hands as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. enters the First Baptist Church for a mass meeting after returning to St. Augustine on June 16, 1964, to lead the drive to integrate the nation’s oldest city.

On Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., Martin Luther King Jr. gave what would come to be known as his "I Have A Dream" speech. King's speech was a call to America to live up to the words of its founding documents, a longing for a dream of racial harmony, and an appeal for freedom to ring out from every part of the country. The speech was part of The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, an event calling for economic and social justice for African Americans, in which about 250,000 people of many races and creeds participated. The day is credited for helping to spur on civil rights legislation, which culminated in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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