According2Sam #64

On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous, "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. It had been about a decade since the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, and Black America had come a long way in ending segregation, Jim Crow, and disenfranchisement at the polls. In the years ahead MLK would see the passage of a Civil Rights Act, including Fair Housing, and a Voting Rights Act. It was a very promising decade for Black America. It was like after centuries of being held down and held back the shackles were finally off, and Black America would be able to compete for the American dream. However, after all of that success, in an interview in 1967 King admitted he was less hopeful about the future of Black America than he had been on that day in August of 1963. He said his dream had become a nightmare, and events of recent years had forced him to reevaluate his optimism and take a different look at the world around him. Eleven months later he would be killed by an assassin's bullet. What were the events that made King less hopeful, and what was the sobering reality that forced him reevaluate his optimism? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #64.