Photo Gallery: I was Born on the March on Washington

Forty-eight years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a former student at Washington High School in the Cascade Patch area, was delivering his “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C.

At that same moment, my mom was in a hospital bed at Hurley Hospital in Michigan, surrounded by my grandparents and relatives, my then-young resident doctor dad and various hospital friends—all admiring the couple’s first born child, swaddled in her arms.

I was that baby and—like millions of African-Americans born in the late 1950s and 1960s—a child of King's dream.

Dr. King spoke of his dream where "one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."

He spoke of a dream in which his "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."

Though Hurricane Irene has delayed the official dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall, King's legacy and this historic day lives on forever.

Here are some photos of the new memorial and the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.