Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation marked the beginning of the end of slavery in America. A century later, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered the most iconic speech of the civil rights movement, now known as “I Have a Dream.” This exhibition brings together the earliest printed versions of these two landmark texts in American history.
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