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Lincoln Memorial would have been a symbolic location for the ideals of Lincoln to be expressed in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech. Abraham Lincoln was the driving for behind the Emancipation Proclamation which granted freedom to slaves and gave them rights as U.S. citizens.

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It was symbolic of the time, place, and the man who freed slaves.

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