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Barack Obama is preparing to accept the Democratic nomination in an evening sparked with history. Forty five years after Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the speech known as  "I have a dream," we ask whether the civil rights movement has achieved most of its goals.

Barack Obama is preparing to accept the Democratic nomination in an evening sparked with history.

Forty five years after Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the speech known as  "I have a dream," has the civil rights movement achieved most of its goals?

Midmorning Hour 1 for August 28, 2008

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