AUGUST 28
1963: Martin Luther King Jr.
delivers one of the most famous speeches in American history to a crowd
of over 200,000 at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The civil rights
leader tells the attendees of the March on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom that "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by
the content of their character."
1968: The presidential nomination of Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey at the Democratic National Convention takes a backseat to the
action happening outside on the streets of Chicago. Thousands of
anti-Vietnam War protesters clash with police armed with clubs and tear gas in a violent, televised confrontation known as the "battle of Michigan Avenue."
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