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(People singing)
We shall all be free...

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Narrator: In celebration of Black History Month,

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employees of NASA Ames Research Center

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participated in re-enactments of two great

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events in American history.

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Employees joined together at Ames

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as a tribute to the 1963 March on Washington

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for Jobs and Freedom, a defining moment

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in the struggle for civil rights.

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The march culminated with NASA Ames

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Director of Strategic Communications

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Donald James delivering the famous

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"I Have a Dream" speech by

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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"I have dream that my poor little children

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will one day live in a nation where they will not

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be judged by the color of the skin,

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but by the content of their character.

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I have a dream today."

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Narrator: The group then gathered for a re-enactment

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of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation

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by President Lincoln.

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Ames Chief of Security Ken Silverman

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played the part of Lincoln.

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The goal was to commemorate these events

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on their 50th and 150th anniversaries

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by inviting attendees to participate

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in an experience of their own.