It was where Martin Luther King, Jr gave his famous I Have a Dream speech.

Martin Luther King delivering his I Have a Dream speech (1963).

Later that year King gave his historic I Have A Dream speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

(King directly mentioned police brutality in his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.)

Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech there.

His 45-minute "American Dream" speech, though shrewdly bilingual, was hardly a model of great television writing.

Dyson argues that the "Dream" speech has become an unwitting enemy of King's genuine moral complexity.

Video of "I Have a Dream" speech, from LearnOutLoud.com.

In 1963, he led a March on Washington and gave the "I Have a Dream" speech.

Dr. Martin Luther King gives his I Have a Dream speech.