Command Historian
JBSA Fort Sam Houston, U.S. Army South celebrate Black History Month
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. began his famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech by declaring, "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity ... In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check." ... Full story
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