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“What will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation,” begins Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And, 50 years later, those words still hold true.

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On Saturday, a march commemorating that great march and “I Have a Dream” speech will begin in Drake Park and work its way to Crow’s Feet – a march to recognize all that has and hasn’t happened for civil rights and equality since then.

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This article appears in Best of Central Oregon 2013.

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I Have A Dream

by Phil Busse, The Source - Bend, Oregon
August 20, 2013

<h1>I Have A Dream</h1> <p class="byline">by Phil Busse, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />August 20, 2013</p> <p>"What will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation," begins Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And, 50 years later, those words still hold true. </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs</a></p> <p>On Saturday, a march commemorating that great march and "I Have a Dream" speech will begin in Drake Park and work its way to Crow's Feet - a march to recognize all that has and hasn't happened for civil rights and equality since then. </p> <p>7 pm.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/i-have-a-dream-2286128/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=23040&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/i-have-a-dream-2286128/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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