The speech was delivered on March 4, 1865, outside the grand, columned east entrance to the Capitol. Lincoln addressed a crowd of about 40,000 people on a blustery, rainy day that gave way to ...

King improvised his most famous lines as he looked out at the 250,000 people he had summoned to Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. MLK's 'March' speech: four minutes and heavy with policy King's speech ...