![]() ![]() Many of King's family were in attendance. Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and incumbent President Barack Obama, who addressed the crowd and spoke on the significance of the event. where King made his historic speech to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the occasion. On August 28, 2013, thousands gathered on the mall in Washington D.C. The centerpiece for the memorial is based on a line from King's "I Have A Dream" speech: "Out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope." A 30 feet (9.1 m)-high relief of King named the "Stone of Hope" stands past two other pieces of granite that symbolize the "mountain of despair." In 2003, the National Park Service dedicated an inscribed marble pedestal to commemorate the location of King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial. In 2002, the Library of Congress honored the speech by adding it to the United States National Recording Registry. The full speech did not appear in writing until August 1983, some 15 years after King's death, when a transcript was published in The Washington Post. In the wake of the speech and march, King was named Man of the Year by TIME magazine for 1963, and in 1964, he was the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Lyndon Johnson signing Civil Rights Act, July 2, 1964 ![]()
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