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Todd S. Purdum, Vanity Fair, Feb. 2011 Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford organized and hosted a pre-inaugural ball at the D.C. Armory on the eve of Inauguration day, January 19, 1961, considered one of the biggest parties ever held in the history of Washington, D.C. Sinatra recruited many Hollywood stars who performed and attended, and went as far as convincing Broadway theatres to suspend their ...
External audio. I Have a Dream, August 28, 1963, Educational Radio Network [1] " I Have a Dream " is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister [2] Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights ...
The president then launched into a 20-minute speech in which he called for a "new era of responsibility." Read the full text of that speech below: My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by ...
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War's ...
The ceremonies, speeches and performances in traditional regalia Monday came two years after President Joe Biden officially commemorated the day honoring “America's first inhabitants and the ...
Following his victory in the 2008 United States presidential election, then- President-elect Barack Obama gave his victory speech [1] at Grant Park in his home city of Chicago, [2] on November 4, 2008, before an estimated crowd of 240,000. [3][4] Viewed on television and the Internet by millions of people around the globe, Obama's speech ...
Participants. Frederick Douglass. Transcript of speech. " What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? " [1][2] was a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. [3] In the address, Douglass states that positive statements ...
April 9: National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day. April 14: Pan American Day and Pan American Week. May 1: Loyalty Day. May 1: Law Day, U.S.A. May 15: Peace Officers Memorial Day. 1st Thursday in May: National Day of Prayer. 2nd Friday in May: Military Spouse Day. 2nd Sunday in May: Mother's Day.