Today, 15th Jan 2024, the United States of America celebrated Martin Luther King's Day. He was an American minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King came from a comfortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern Black ministry; His parents were college-educated. I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, that was delivered on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington. A call for equality and freedom, it became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement and one of the most iconic speeches in American history. Some 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, for the March on Washington. The one-day event both protested racial discrimination and encouraged the passage of civil rights legislation at the time the Civil Rights Act was being discussed in Congress. The march featured various speeches as well as musical performances before him.