Rev. Martin Luther King - The Great March To Freedom (1963) (@256)

Some days ago, on Jan. 15th, it was the 80th anniversary of Martin Luther King's birthday. Traditionally, it is celebrated in the US every 3rd Monday of January. This year, one day later it is Obama's inauguration; I guess there couldn't be a better match. It is for sure that without King's dignity and courage, without his achievements (which, incredibly, came non-violently although he was continuously provoked) without his vision for a "colour-blind" society, Obama wouldn't have been in the position he is today.
Today's upload is the speech that King gave in Detroit in June 23, 1963; it was during that speech that he first delivered "I Have a Dream". Many parts of this speech were also used during his Lincoln Memorial speech in Washington, some two months later, simply providing a masterpiece of rhetoric.

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PS. Since The Great March To Freedom was released by "Gordy Records", a subsidiary of Motown, this post could be also considered as a preamble of a post that will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Motown records.