2. Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have a Dream Speech
Even for children today, the speech delivered by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28, 1963, echoes in their heads. That speech, the “I Have a Dream” speech, continues to receive regular rotation, cut into music tracks, and played at least once a year in part or whole. It remains a brilliant touchstone of the civil rights movement. King’s speech not only changed the ’60s, rallying support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it continued to remind the nation just how painful the past can be if we don’t stay vigilant. Many would lobby that humanity is still far from King’s dream, that Americans still judge others “by the color of their skin,” not “by the content of their character.”