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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in the Fair Park Music Hall on January 5, 1963, a time when Dallas was still segregated. The crowd inside the Spanish Romanesque building numbered more than 2,500 people.
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During his 45-minute speech at the Fair Park Music Hall, Dr. King said: "If the American dream is to be a reality, the idea of white supremacy must come to an end now and ever more."
The audience in segregated Dallas applauded more than two dozen times.
The audience in segregated Dallas applauded more than two dozen times.
Fair Park Music Hall in Dallas was built in 1925, prior to the great exposition celebrating the 1936 Texas Centennial.
The hall, designed by local architectural firm Lang and Witchell, bore lettering on its façade that read: “Dedicated to the true, the good, and the beautiful.”
The hall, designed by local architectural firm Lang and Witchell, bore lettering on its façade that read: “Dedicated to the true, the good, and the beautiful.”
Over its history, the Music Hall has hosted Broadway musicals, Dallas’ opera & symphony orchestra, ballet, & touring theatre companies.
It remains a performance venue to this day, & is listed with Fair Park in the National Register of Historic Places.
It remains a performance venue to this day, & is listed with Fair Park in the National Register of Historic Places.
