LBJ’ Howard address: A cross-examination

Part Two

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President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 Howard University commencement address is one of the most celebrated speeches of the sixties after Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech delivered at the March on Washington in 1963.

During MLK’s famous speech, he compared America’s founding documents to a “promissory note” that guaranteed all Americans inalienable rights.