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As we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Morning Edition asks for you to write a poem that starts with the words "I dream a world."

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Leonard Freed’s photographs of The March on Washington August 28, 1963. On that historic day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech at the Lincoln Memorial and 250,000 people participated in the largest peaceful demonstration for civil rights ever witnessed in America. Freed Photo Credit: All photographs copyright Estate of Leonard Freed - Magnum Photos (Brigitte Freed). #

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The Big Seven —Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Dorothy Height and Whitney Young—were the leaders of seven prominent civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

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Did Hillary Clinton mean to discount Martin Luther King, Jr. with her remark that it was Lyndon Johnson who actually pushed through the Civil Rights Bill

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