This is one of my favorite pictures of Martin Luther King Jr.
He delivered his "I Had a Dream" speech from the Lincoln Memorial to around a quarter of a million people of all different ethnicities.
MLK Jr was participating in the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" where they raised awareness of the conditions for blacks in the southern united states. They also made demands to end racial segregation in public schools, to implement laws prohibiting racial discrimination in employment, for protection of civil rights workers from police brutality, and a demand for $2 minimum wage for ALL workers.
He was also involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Albany Movement, the Birmingham Campaign, the protests in St. Augustine, Florida and Selma, Alabama, Bloody Sunday, the Poor People's Campaign just to name a few. I would go into more detail about how he was involved in all these events, but you can research yourself =)
"This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day." Martin Luther King
