There are pitifully few Negro millionaires and few Negro employers. Negroes are almost entirely a working people. This unity of purpose is not an historical coincidence. This month, we look back at a speech King gave to the Fourth Constitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO in December 1961. Less is known about predecessors to that speech. The speech is one of the most famous and inspiring speeches of all time, and with good reason. Many of us memorized parts of it while in school.
“A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.”Ĭivil rights leader Martin Luther King is perhaps best known for his iconic 1963 I Have a Dream speech.
