Martin Luther King, Jr. Had A Dream ... In Detroit
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 in downtown Detroit was the largest until the famous event at the Lincoln Mall in Washington, D.C. Why was the “Walk to Freedom” in Detroit on June 23, 1963? It was to remember the end of race riot that had happened from June 20-22 1943, where two d...