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AS KING OUTLINES A 'DREAM'

speaking with severity of the jailings and beatings and whippings in the South. 

The woman came on then and her song, I been 'buked and I been scorned, underlined the impatience of the young. With great gasps and whoops and hollers, Mahalia Jackson brought the crowd to its feet. 

Late in the afternoon, when the shadows were long on the grass, the third man touched the heartstrings of the crowd. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, he said, of a day when mountains would be made low, rough places plain, crooked places straight and "all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, 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, we are free at last!'" When he finished, grown men and women wept unashamedly.

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Rousing cheers greet King's repeated statement: "I have a dream." 

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Rights crusading comic Dick Gregory (r.) monitors the march proceedings.

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[[caption]] Standing in reflecting pool, women (below) applaud speech. Thinking deeply, an African weighs King's words. Worn out, after a day of marching. [[/caption]]

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