CNN CNN Newsroom August 28, 2013 18:53:00
Work and the legacy of so many people that have gone on before us. 50 years ago today in the symbolic shadow of this great emancipator, abraham lincoln, my father, the great liberator, stood in this very spot and declared to this nation his dream to let freedom ring. for all people who were being manicled by a system of segregation and discrimination. 50 years ago he commissioned us to go back to our various cities, towns, hamlets, states and villages and let freedom ring. the reverberation of the sound of that freedom message has amplified and echoed since 1963. through the decades and coast ...