Two score and seven years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial and conveyed his inspirational vision of the American Dream. King delivered his speech only nine years after the groundbreaking and momentous decision of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education striking down segregation in schools.
While racial barriers were just beginning to come down when the Warren court issued its unanimous decision and King took to the Mall in Washington, the everyday plight of the minority citizen in the United States was, in the words King spoke that day, “crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.”
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