Dimensions
227 x 278 x 9mm
28 August 1963.
History sometimes takes place over long periods of time; sometimes it can occur in a single day. This high-drama series looks at those momentous days in the last century when great and terrible things transpired within 24 hours, which would leave an impact on the history of the world for decades afterwards.
On 28 August 1963, the American civil rights campaigner, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, made a speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. In it he described his dream of black and white people co-existing in racial harmony and equality. But his historic address was really about the inequality and injustices that black people suffered. Although he told the listeners about his dream, he was, in fact, showing them a nightmare.
What were the political and social circumstances that inspired King to make his speech? And what impact did it have on the civil rights movement, and on equal opportunities in education and employment? In the early twenty-first century, what aspects of King's dream have come true?
