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MLK Jr. Day Essentials [VIDEO]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 10:47 PM on January 14, 2007.


The "Mountaintop," "Beyond Vietnam," and "I Have a Dream" speeches... and Colbert.

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There's more of course, much more; but for now just listen to/watch these speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. and be silent.

The first is the last. Dr King gave his famous "mountaintop" speech the day before he died, declaring eerily (scroll down....):





This clip is followed by the famous "I Have a Dream" speech, the "Beyond Vietnam" speech, and finally Stephen Colbert's "I Have a Dreamsicle" parody.

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Tagged as: civil rights, mlk

Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.


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