496K views · 13K reactions | More than 200,000 people listened as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. https://abcn.ws/38lYv6Z #MLKDay | The View | Facebook

Preceding the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, Black Americans were excluded from equal participation in society and grossly mistreated. There is no question that this pervasive discrimination is one way in which America fell far short of her noble aspirations for liberty and justice for all. Our #American Creed, outlined in the Declaration of Independence, was meant for all Americans, but, in practice, it routinely fell short of actually applying to all Americans. #MLK addressed this