About Utah: King's speech set her free
SALT LAKE CITY —
She was 5 years old when she and her family gathered in front of the television in the front room of their house on the west side of Salt Lake City to watch a man give a speech.
She's never forgotten it.
Neither has anyone else.
The man was Martin Luther King Jr. The occasion was his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech delivered in Washington, D.C., on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963.
As with so many people of color who grew up when the civil rights moveme
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