On August 28, 1963, one of the most influential speeches was given by an African American man named Martian Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. This speech was called, I Have a Dream. Martian Luther King Jr. discussed why it was important that blacks and whites were treated as equals, not separates. Why was this speech so powerful one may ask? Some believe that it was due to the emotion, many believe it was because of the timing of the speech, there are multiple reasons why it was effective. Martin Luther King Jr. was not necessarily directing his speech to the other African-Americans who had assembled around him to listen but to the Whites in the United States of America. He directed this speech towards them for many
