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March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
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March on Washington
1963 civil rights movement demonstration
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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I Have a Dream
1963 speech by Martin Luther King Jr.
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