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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s actual birthday is on January 15th (he would have been 81 years old) but once a year, on the third Monday of January, the entire country celebrates the memory of his life and his work as an African American Civil Rights activist back in the 1960’s.

Continue reading to take a look at his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, which was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.

R.I.P Martin Luther King

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