{"id":1597,"date":"2016-01-19T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:48","slug":"wabash-honors-a-dream-and-a-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2016\/01\/19\/wabash-honors-a-dream-and-a-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabash Honors a Dream and a Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wabash community gathered in Pioneer Chapel on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day to celebrate America\u2019s great champion of racial justice and\u00a0equality, recalling\u00a0Dr. King&#8217;s famous &#8220;I Have A Dream&#8221; address with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EwTkrPvPw7w\">a shared reading <\/a>by more than 80\u00a0Wabash students, faculty, staff, administrators, and campus guests. Each person read one line from the speech. <em>(Click through the photos above to see many of the participants.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s shared reading was organized by the College&#8217;s Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies and attended by more than 150, in addition to the readers.<\/p>\n<p>Wabash President Gregory Hess read the opening line and A.J. Clark \u201916 and Dean for Professional Development Alan Hill ended with the speech&#8217;s famous conclusion: &#8220;And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God&#8217;s children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, &#8216;Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A.J. Clark \u201916 concluded\u00a0the celebration, leading the group in singing &#8220;Old Wabash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See a video of the celebration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EwTkrPvPw7w\">here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the speech here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/mlkihaveadream.htm\">www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/mlkihaveadream.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wabash community gathered in Pioneer Chapel on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day to celebrate America\u2019s great champion of racial justice and\u00a0equality, recalling\u00a0Dr. King&#8217;s famous &#8220;I Have A Dream&#8221; address with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-on-campus","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/01\/62-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}