Lines from the civil rights leader’s speech were recited by city residents as part of an art project to mark the 50th anniversary of Dr King’s speech at Newcastle University.
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Fifty people across the city – in shops, schools, offices, on the street, a yoga class, a business conference – recited lines from Martin Luther King’s speech.
Jeremy Deller, the performance’s initiator, is one of the UK’s leading artists. He told the BBC that Dr King’s speech was “political poetry”: “I thought it was an amazing speech and still is. It's incredibly poignant for today.”
In his speech, Martin Luther King named three main problems that faced the US and the rest of the world in 1967 - “the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war”.
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