Crowds mark anniversary of King's 'dream' speech

Sunday, August 24, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Forty years after Martin Luther King Jr. eloquently captured the struggle of black Americans for equality, civil rights activists called Saturday for his dream to finally be realized.

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