The speech was delivered on March 4, 1865, outside the grand, columned east entrance to the Capitol. Lincoln addressed a crowd of about 40,000 people on a blustery, rainy day that gave way to ...
July 18 is Nelson Mandela Day, and in honor of the anti-apartheid activist and first black president of South Africa, we're reliving a famous speech he ... Many people will spend 67 minutes ...
He delivered his most famous speech — “I Have a Dream” — on ... Dubbed the Walk to Freedom, King stood at the front of a throng of people — estimated at more than 120,000 — as they ...