Lim Tianyi 2. Dreaming Everything that you see around you, the chair you are setting in, the computer that you are using, the house that you live it, is a product of someone’s vision, someone’s dream. It existed even before you saw the physical product, before its shipment to the store, before its production. It existed as a dream, in the faculty of the mind. In a time when there was great racial segregation in public schools, discrimination in employment and physical brutality from police, there was a man who wanted to change things. He had a dream for black people to be free from their oppression, in the struggle for justice and human dignity. Although the African Americans had legally been freed from slavery, had rights of citizens and full voting rights, many still continued to face economic, academic and political repression. He had a dream for an end to racism in the United States. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a group of civil rights, labor and religious organizations organized one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history. It took place in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. It was estimated that about 200,000 to 300,000 people participated in this, ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.’ Observers estimated that about 75% of the people were black.
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