I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Black Crayon slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Black Crayon is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Black Crayon is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Black Crayon lives on a lonely island of poverty in the mids