The Lincoln Memorial has been the setting for a number of historically significant events, especially around the civil rights movement. On Easter Sunday 1939 Marian Anderson sang at the memorial after being denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall because of her race. In 1963, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King Jr.delivered his βI Have a Dreamβ speech.
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