WATCH: HdG Students Give Moving 'I Have A Dream' Speech Rendition

Havre de Grace MD

25 February, 2020

2:27 PM

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BEL AIR, MD — In honor of Black History Month, Havre de Grace Elementary School students performed part of a famous address Monday night before the Harford County Board of Education. Eight students recited lines from the famous "I Have A Dream" speech that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in 1963. During the performance, they broke out into song at this juncture: "This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: 'My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.'" At the end, they also broke from the traditional recitation to join hands as the civil rights leader had envisioned. "When we allow freedom [to] ring — we'll let it ring from every village and every hamlet, every city and every state," one said. "We will 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," said another, before they joined hands and chanted: "Free at last, Free at last, Thank God a-mighty, We are free at last." The Board of Education members gave them a standing ovation. Watch the performance: