On this day in 1963, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC in front of 250,000 people who were gathered for the “March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” Dr. King challenged the country to “rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed – we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” His speech and the reaction to it helped to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. Please click on the link below for the story of one of the greatest speeches in US History.