The dream was to end the humiliation. The next dream, Ed, was the public accommodations bill to make it illegal in 1964. Then the dream in '65 was the right to vote. Let us not forget that blacks could not vote but until '67 most white women in the South could not serve on juries and 18-year-olds could not vote. You couldn't vote on college campuses, you could not vote bilingual. So all of that came out of that season of struggle and while the dream speech was a big deal, I think Medgar Evers' assassination on June the 12th was a big motivating factor for action and of course the Birmingham bombing on Sept. 15th after the speech and then President Kennedy being killed Nov. 22nd. All that was the same season of struggle.
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