Yesterday America celebrated the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have A Dream address on the Mall in Washington, DC. The Washington Times posted an excellent editorial by Dr. Ben Carson.
It is hard to believe that 50 years have elapsed since the famous “I have a dream speech” of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.on the Mall in Washington. I was an 11-year-old child in Detroit languishing in the midst of poverty, but very interested in the strides that were being made in the civil rights movement.
I was the only black kid in my seventh-grade class and over the previous two years had risen from the bottom of the class to the top. My mother had forced us to read, which had a profound positive effect on both my brother Curtis and myself. I was quite optimistic that things were getting better for black people in America.
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