When the Prophet's Words Echoed from the Lincoln Memorial

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. , under a late-summer sky. They had marched for jobs and freedom, and now they stood shoulder to shoulder — Black and white, young and old — waiting. When Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the podium, the afternoon heat pressed down on the crowd like a weight.…