The I Have A Dream Speech

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Martin Luther King was born in Jan 1929 in Atlanta Georgia at that time that he was kid African American people were treated differently than the white people. When he turned 15 he had graduated from a segregated school. His father and grandfather were ministers. In 1953 he had met and then married Coretta Scott and had 4 children. After the incident with rosa park king stepped he was done with segregation.

I Have A Dream Speech Martin Luther King had a famous speech it was the I have a dream speech. That speech was about that he wanted his children to live in a better place where there was no segregation. He wanted their life to be a better life so he tried as hard as could to make his children's life better

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