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Saying Your Piece
On this day in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his world-changing “I Have a Dream” speech. Today we give you photographs of oration—human rights calls to action, political stump speeches, and soapbox rants. WASHINGTON, D.C.—At the climax of his "I Have a Dream" speech, Aug. 28, 1963
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Book of the Week RFK Funeral Train by Paul Fusco Thirty-nine years ago this week in Los Angeles, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. A funeral train carried his body from New York City to Washington, D.C. In RFK Funeral Train, Paul Fusco documents the funeral train procession. Despite the hot weather, hundreds of thousands of people stood along the train tracks waiting to pay their respects. | Join the Fray © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. The pictures I took spontaneously—with a bliss-like sensation, as if they had long inhabited my unconscious—were often more powerful than those I had painstakingly composed. I grasped their magic as in passing. Herbert List |