A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was an important moment in U.S. history. While some might argue that ...

I still believe in the dream — not as a distant hope, but as a call to action. On Thursday, we’ll march again, this time on ...

I don’t pretend to have the answer, but we could do worse than look to the experience of Martin Luther King Jr. during an ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was addressing a crowd of 260,000 when gospel singer Mahalia Jackson shouted, “Tell ’em about the dream, Martin.” King then departed from his prepared text to make an ...

I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., 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 ...

MLK Jr. first delivered the speech in Rocky Mount in November 1962, nine months before the famous national mall speech.

To mark the historic moment, the WNBA team named after the speech – the Atlanta Dream – is launching a program to carry on ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Here’s how the final day of his life ...

To mark the historic moment, the WNBA team named after the speech – the Atlanta Dream – is launching a program to carry on the legacy of Dr. King's work. The team is working with partners to eliminate ...

The eldest son of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King delivered the keynote address ...

He isn’t famous, though arguably he should be. “J.T. was a personal assistant to Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy,” ...