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Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream
"I have a dream today." On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King spoke these words as he addressed a crowd of more than 200,000 civil rights protesters gathered at The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Two months earlier, President John Kennedy had sent a civil rights bill to Congress, but it was struck down. Although Kennedy was concerned about the possibility of widespread violence during this protest, he realized he was powerless to stop it and embraced the movement instead. Known as the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," the country expected to hear King deliver strong words to his opponents. Instead, his "I Have a Dream" speech was one of heartfelt passion and poetic eloquence that still echoes in our memory.
Manufacturer: MPI Home Video
Price Range: $10.58 - $19.98
 Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream
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| User Reviews |  | MLK I have a dream
rating: 1
If you thought you could hear ML King's I Have a Dream speech, you are sadly mistaken. There are just a few sentences.
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MLK Jnr. I have a dream
rating: 3
Its a very good movie,clear and memoriable; however;it was just too short and I had expectated a longer version, rather than just short clips.
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Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream
rating: 1
I felt short changed, expected all the events that lead up to the monumental speech, including Dr. King's speech that day. It's obvious the distributors of this video just wanted to make money. They really should be ashamed of themselves. Our children lose on this one.
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If you are looking for the speech, then here it is!
rating: 4
I was looking for just the speech and found it. While the first few minutes are documentary style, it then moves into the speech and from what I understand it is the complete speech. We played it on MLK Day and it really moved a lot of people (again).
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The Speech that Changed America
rating: 5
Set amidst the backdrop of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. gave the speech that changed the social dynamic of America. I Have A Dream, he repeated between refrains of equality and social justice. From that speech erupted a movement - his dream become their dream and now it's our dream and closer to reality than ever before.
I've heard the speech before, and I've read the speech, but seeing it in its setting was a challenge to our basic institutions. It was a challenge to Lincoln himself. A challenge in oration, a challenge in tone, and a challenge to change America more
Peter Jennings narrates the dvd and it incorporates raw footage from marches and protests and concludes with a tribute to the man, murdered for his beliefs. Three hundred thousand people stood before Dr. King that Summer day in 1963 but that's only a fraction of a fraction of those who have been touched by his powerful cadence. It's both poetry and sermon. I'm better for having watched it.
- CV Rick, February 2008
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