(This program was originally broadcast on April 2, 2025)
Sixty-two years ago today, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and delivered his immortal “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
In today’s encore edition of Midday, we revisit Tom Hall’s conversation last April with Dr. Jeanne Theoharis, a historian and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, and the author or co-author of 13 books on the American civil rights movement…