moten to do. dr. king was able to effectively express in eloquent prose the struggle of african americans 100 years after lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation. they were still according to dr. king. they were still they still bore the burden of segregation and discrimination and poverty and they remained marginalized in their own country. yet standing before the lincoln memorial king remained optimistic. he envisioned a future america in which lincoln's beliefs that everyone should have a quote fair chance in the race of life would be realized. social justice groups continue to gather at this memorial because it is a reminder that change is possible even when the circumstances appear hopeless. the challenges the nation faced a century and a half ago seemed formidable, but the union endured because of strong leadership and the will of enough people to secure its survival. our challenge our challenges are no less daunting. but they can be met successfully. as a nation founded on the principal th

so, moten given much more in a dense beach. from there you go to the easter sunday concert 17 years later, singing my country tis of thee of the we saying, a statement about integration. she had been barred from constitution hall, right near the white house, because she was black. after that, of course, august 19th, 63, the march on washington. martin luther king says i am standing in the symbolic shadow of this great statue that, 100 years, later the negro is still not free. from that moment, the meaning of the memorial changes completely, it becomes, as i said, a platform for protesting for aspirations for equality. i would say also that the image morphed into the replacement icon of the country, replacing uncle sam. it's always cartoons of the lincoln memorial weaving at the death of, kennedy fist bumping obama, falling over backwards when trump is elected, on and on. he's a representative of the republic. it is also, as television viewers know and washingtonians know, the staging grounds for the night before the inaugural c