Therefore, he enlisted the aid of additional church leaders and the UAW union to help mobilize demonstrators for the cause. King is most famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorialduring the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The march originally was conceived as an event to dramatize the desperate condition of blacks in the southern U.S. and an opportunity to place organizers' concerns and grievances squarely before the seat of power in the nation's capital