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MLK Day 2023 – Video Transcript

[Video Description]: People making posters in the Jordan Ballroom in the Student Union Building.

[Audio: announcer] I have the pleasure to present to you, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!

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[Audio: Martin Luther King, Jr.] I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:

[Video Description]: People holding posters and marching towards the capitol building.

[Audio: Martin Luther King, Jr.] We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood, I have a dream. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi from every mountainside. When we let it ring from every village and every hamlet from every state and every city…

[Video Description]: Various speakers shown at a podium on the Capitol steps.

[Audio: Martin Luther King, Jr.] We will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty.

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