(WWJ) – In August of 1963 the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King led the March on Washington and delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, a seminal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
But just two months earlier, Dr. King marched in Detroit and delivered the same speech during the Walk To Freedom, as an estimated crowd of 125,000 people went down Woodward Avenue to then-Cobo Hall.
On a new Daily J, WWJ’s Zach Clark hears from Detroit historian Ken Coleman, who believes the iconic speech in Washington may not have happened – or may not have been as impactful – if MLK didn’t first come to Detroit in support of a city still reeling from race riots 20 years prior.
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