ALS, one page, 6.5 x 9.75, July 6, 1994. Remarkable letter about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most famous speech, in part: "I was in Washington, D.C. and heard Dr. King's 'I have a Dream' speech. The large crowd of listeners gave him a great applause. It was a wonderful experience." Nicely double-matted and framed with a photo of Parks with Martin Luther King, Jr., in the background to an overall size of 23.25 x 18.5. In fine condition.
Parks would become forever ingrained in American history when, on December 1, 1955, the 42-year-old black seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white person on an Alabama bus. Her unfair arrest for disorderly conduct kickstarted the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by a then-unknown Martin Luther King, Jr. The influential boycott, which ended a year later with the Supreme Court's striking down segregated bus laws, resulted in King's emergence as a bona fide leader of the Civil Rights Movement. King's activism came to a climax with the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, where he delivered his iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech. Prior to his speech, Rosa Parks was introduced in a tribute to 'Negro Women Fighters for Freedom' on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. A superb, historically significant letter connecting activist icons.
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