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Every year, fourth graders read from King's “I have a dream” speech, each one putting a special emphasis on their one memorized sentence and ending with a song. It's King's dream realized: By Melissa Bell | 08:25 AM ET, 01/17/2012 SuperFan badge

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day marks a time for Americans to acknowledge the progress—or lack thereof—made since King's historic “I Have a Dream” speech in the summer of 1963. For many, the federal holiday serves as a call to action to remedy the

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is celebrated today, Jan. 16, 2011. The civil rights leader would have been 83 years old today.

Here's a mash-up of some of the songs that have incorporated MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech either by referencing Dr. King's iconic words or by sampling the speech itself.

Eran Thompson of Not in Our Town Billings reads from Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech. Billings' public elementary-school district grew by 330 students last year, and the student-to-teacher ratio in a majority of the

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