What Was the Message Behind the 'I Have a Dream' Speech? Martin Luther King Jr.'s “Dream” speech was a call for equality. It identified the faults of America and what measures were needed to make it a better place. A central theme throughout the speech was the importance of everyone being treated equally.
When did Martin Luther King say I Have a dream.
August 28, 1963
Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial toward the end of the March on Washington. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., took the podium and addressed the gathered crowd, which numbered 200,000 people or more.
Impact of the speech: the civil rigths movement, demands equality for all races and everything changes in their demand. The changes were for example that the black and white people were alowed to be together and the black people were allowed normal everyday priorities that White people has had for years. That was things like being in the same rows in the bus, or things that
Background of the demostration
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was partly intended to demonstrate mass support for the civil rights legislation proposed by President John F. Kennedy in June. Martin Luther King and other leaders, therefore, agreed to keep their speeches calm, also, to avoid provoking the civil disobedience which had become the hallmark of the Civil Rights Movement. King originally designed his speech as a homage to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, timed to correspond with the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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