After leading 125,000 mostly Black marchers down Woodward Avenue, with many carrying signs declaring “Evers Died for You—Join NAACP for Him,” King gave an earlier version of his “I Have a Dream” speech in which he stated that “before the victory is won, some, like Medgar Evers, may have to face physical death. But if physical death is the price that some must pay to free their children and their white brothers from an eternal psychological death, then nothing can be more redemptive . . . I have a dream.” King expressed the hope “that there will be a day that we will no longer face the
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