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Ed Pilkington in New York

‘Racism is still with us’: celebration of King’s 1963 speech shadowed by racist attack

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Martin Luther King III, the son of the slain civil rights leader, and Yolanda Renee King, his granddaughter, commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1963 march on Washington.
Martin Luther King III, the son of the slain civil rights leader, and Yolanda Renee King, his granddaughter, commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1963 march on Washington. Photograph: John Lamparski 2023/Shutterstock

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s legendary I Have a Dream speech, his son and granddaughter have decried continuing racial violence and hatred in the US, lamenting that the civil rights leader’s call for equality and justice has yet to be fulfilled.

Speaking a day after a vast crowd gathered in the nation’s capital in an echo of the 28 August 1963 march on Washington at which King made his famous remarks, his eldest son, Martin Luther King III, warned of a resurgence of hate crimes. Violence against minorities was “unconscionable” and “unacceptable”, he said.

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