31. Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream (Ep 2)

Journey Through Time

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4.3 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Harry Belafonte, Josephine Baker, Bob Dylan, and which other celebrities joined the 250,000 marching on Washington in August 1963? How were the American Nazi Party planning to incite violence? How did Martin Luther King improvise the most famous speech of the 20th century? Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they explore the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech and enduring its legacy. Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com X: @ThroughTimePod Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod Instagram: @ThroughTimePod Social Producer: Emma Jackson Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.3	Life magazine August 23, 1963.
0:51.6	The total line of the march will measure only about one mile from the Washington Monument
0:56.8	to the Lincoln Memorial.
0:58.8	No one any longer doubts that at least 100,000 marchers will be swarming over this route,
1:04.8	and there are some who fear that 250,000 people will try to crush their way into the Capitol and turn the demonstration into chaos.
1:14.6	How the event comes off, whether it explodes into violence and sets back the cause of civil rights,
1:20.7	or proceeds smoothly and peacefully as hoped, will be the supreme test of Washington's law enforcement agencies.
1:28.3	Welcome to Journey Through Time. I'm Sarah Churchill.
1:31.3	And I'm David Ullisogger. And that article you read, Sarah, published five days before the March on Washington,
1:38.3	I'm fascinated by that article, just of the words that are used. The choice of words says so much about the
1:45.4	way the press had wound up the tension leading up to the march on Washington, the great day
1:50.6	when Martin Luther King gave his I Have a Dream speech. And as we said in the last episode,
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