More than 200,000 people listened as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. https://abcn.ws/38lYv6Z #MLKDay | ABC News

160K views · 180 reactions | If the fact that the Lincoln Memorial's dedication ceremony was segregated is surprising, it's due to the power of Marian Anderson's performance there in 1939. VOICE OF FREEDOM premieres Mon Feb 15 at 9/8c on PBS → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/voice-freedom | American Experience | PBS | Facebook

The Lincoln Memorial, an enduring national symbol, celebrates the centennial of its dedication on May 30, 1922. This video looks at drawings from the design proposals submitted to the Lincoln Memorial Commission. It illustrates the competition between architects John Russell Pope and Henry Bacon. Bacon's design was selected for the Lincoln Memorial, but Pope went on to design many other DC landmarks, including the National Archives Building. These drawings, from the series “Proposal Plans for a