Man, Thy Name Is -- Brother

Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson cover art. Story by Gardner Fox.

Repeating, “I have a dream,” MLK offered up the hope that “my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” and the desire to “transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.”

“And when this happens,” he exclaimed in his closing remarks, “and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual -- ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'”