Click to watch the video

{{video.title}}

Stay Updated on BlackFacts!

Sorry, we ran into this problem when attempting to subscribe you to the {{audiencename}}.

{{submitError}}

Please try again. If you keep having problems, contact us at support@blackfacts.com

BlackFacts T-Shirts

Black History Month Special

Show your Black Pride with original BlackFacts SWAG.
Because Black Facts Matter!
Order Now and Save 20%

Black Facts for August 27th

1967 - Martin Luther King, Jr.

{SPEECH} MARTIN LUTHER KING - I HAVE A DREAM | with BIG SUBTITLES - Duration: 3:56. English Speeches 11,024 views

I have a dream-Martin Luther King(English subtitles) - Duration: 17:28. POOYA JAHANDAR 271,345 views

Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have A Dream (W/ Lyrics) - Duration: 4:39. neluke09 41,922 views

Martin Luther King Jr I Have A Dream speech with text - Duration: 14:58. EllemraFrench 879,841 views

Our Friend, Martin - Duration: 1:00:19. dandmonline 2,695,566 views

The Greatest Speech Ever - Robert F Kennedy Announcing The Death Of Martin Luther King - Duration: 6:29. Mohammad Azzam 1,862,642 views

I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr. Full Speech Best Audio - Duration: 32:55. Classical Media 27,947 views

Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream Speech - Duration: 5:18. Ilya Gokadze 6,473,308 views

Martin Luther King If I had sneezed - Duration: 6:20. Free My People 69,025 views

Students remember I have a dream speech - Duration: 2:26. Washington Post 202,785 views

The Death of Martin Luther King - Duration: 9:17. Reveal 812,797 views

I Have Been to the Mountaintop Full Speech - Duration: 43:15. Divinity33372 791,365 views

How Martin Luther King Jr. Was Nearly Assassinated in 1958 - Duration: 2:42. Complex News 139,232 views

The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. by Kid President - Duration: 3:27. SoulPancake 2,012,729 views

Martin Luther King The Three Evils of Society - Duration: 43:11. E. Joesph Doalmsavid 749,396 views

Martin Luther King Jr. Why Jesus Called a Man a Fool August 27, 1967 -

1967 - I have a dream-Martin Luther King(English subtitles)

The Greatest Speech Ever - Robert F Kennedy Announcing The Death Of Martin Luther King - Duration: 6:29. Mohammad Azzam 1,862,642 views

I Have Been to the Mountaintop Full Speech - Duration: 43:15. SeurJamzEnt 731,549 views

Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream Speech - Duration: 5:18. Ilya Gokadze 6,473,308 views

The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes - Duration: 6:42. Kim Seong Lee 31,496,471 views

I have a dream - Martin Luther King and the March on Washington in full HD - Duration: 2:41. Framepool Stock Footage 160,066 views

I Have Been to the Mountaintop Full Speech - Duration: 43:15. Divinity33372 791,365 views

Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address - Duration: 15:05. Stanford 27,868,750 views

Martin Luther King Jr. Why Jesus Called a Man a Fool August 27, 1967 - Duration: 25:50. nicholasflyer 1,069,240 views

The Death of Martin Luther King - Duration: 9:17. Reveal 812,797 views

Martin Luther King Jr - The Man and the Dream - Duration: 59:06. Little Dread 344,490 views

Barack Obama: Yes We Can - Duration: 13:10. BarackObamadotcom 5,833,640 views

The Great Dictator speech by Charlie Chaplin (English Subtitles) - Duration: 3:40. Victor Castillo Escoto 419,324 views

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Debate - Duration: 8:49. Raymond Fisher 3,179,656 views

John F. Kennedys speech in Berlin - Duration: 10:32. mentorinabox 484,104 views

جرج کارلین - شوخی با خدا (به همراه زیرنویس فارسی) - Duration: 10:18. rojer san 43,408 views

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech -

1963 - DuBois, William Edward Burghardt (1868–1963)

Educator, essayist, journalist, scholar, social critic, and activist W.E.B. DuBois, was born to Mary Sylvina Burghardt and Alfred Dubois on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.   He excelled in the public schools of Great Barrington, graduating valedictorian from his high school in 1884.  Four years later he received a B.A. from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1890 DuBois earned a second bachelor degree from Harvard University.  DuBois began two years of graduate studies in History and Economics at the University of Berlin in Germany in 1892 and then returned to the United States to begin a two year stint teaching Greek and Latin at Wilberforce University in Ohio.  In 1895, DuBois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard University.  His doctoral thesis, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in America, became the first book published by Harvard University Press in 1896.  Later that year DuBois married Nina Gomer and the couple had two children.  After the death of his first wife in 1950, DuBois married Shirley Graham who remained his wife until his death.

Before the close of the 19th century, DuBois also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Atlanta University.  During this time, he became the first scholar to systematically study African American urban life.  DuBois’s first post-dissertation book, The Philadelphia Negro, released in 1899, determined that housing and employment discrimination were the principal barriers to racial equality and black prosperity in the urban North.  His work and conclusions initiated the field of African American urban history. 

DuBois lacked black public appeal of his contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, and Paul Robeson.  He remained scathingly critical of white racism his entire life and unlike Washington he was unwilling to seek compromise in the quest for civil rights and racial justice.  In 1903, DuBois published a groundbreaking collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, which

1963 - W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois , in full William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (born February 23, 1868, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 27, 1963, Accra, Ghana), American sociologist, the most important black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. He shared in the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and edited The Crisis, its magazine, from 1910 to 1934. Late in life he became identified with communist causes.

Du Bois graduated from Fisk University, a black institution at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1888. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895. His doctoral dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638–1870, was published in 1896. Although Du Bois took an advanced degree in history, he was broadly trained in the social sciences; and, at a time when sociologists were theorizing about race relations, he was conducting empirical inquiries into the condition of blacks. For more than a decade he devoted himself to sociological investigations of blacks in America, producing 16 research monographs published between 1897 and 1914 at Atlanta (Georgia) University, where he was a professor, as well as The Philadelphia Negro; A Social Study (1899), the first case study of a black community in the United States.

Although Du Bois had originally believed that social science could provide the knowledge to solve the race problem, he gradually came to the conclusion that in a climate of virulent racism, expressed in such evils as lynching, peonage, disfranchisement, Jim Crow segregation laws, and race riots, social change could be accomplished only through agitation and protest. In this view, he clashed with the most influential black leader of the period, Booker T. Washington, who, preaching a philosophy of accommodation, urged blacks to accept discrimination for the time being and elevate themselves through hard work and economic gain, thus winning the respect of the whites.

1967 - MLK " Last Speech" 1968