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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads Detroit Walk to Freedom
June 23, 2022 @ 12:00 am
Two months before his famous oratory at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led over 125,000 people in the Detroit Walk to Freedom. He also spoke at Cobo Arena where he gave an earlier version of his iconic “I have a dream” speech on this day in 1963.