Martin Luther King Jr. Had A Dream In Detroit
Although Martin Luther King day is today – January 16, 2017 – we’re going to step back in history, to June, 1963. Before the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have A Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., he used a version of it in Detroit at Cobo Hall in June of 1963. It was part of a “Walk to Freedom” march with more than 125,000 people coming to downtown Detroit. It was the largest until the famous event at the Lincoln Mall in Washington, D.C. Why was the “Walk...