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who wrote this: On August 28, 1963, some 100 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves, a young man named Martin Luther King climbed the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to describe his vision of America. More than 200,000 people-black and white-came to listen. They came by plane, by car, by bus, by train, and by foot. They came to Washington to demand equal rights for black people. And the dream that they heard on the steps of the Monument became the dream of a generation.

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I am not sure who wrote that specific text, but the passage is about Martin Luther King and his famous "I Have a Dream" speech that he delivered on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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