More than 300 sites ring bells for MLK speech

By Brett Zongker

Published August 29, 2013 8:13am ET

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More than 300 sites ring bells for MLK speech — Jeanne Smiley of Montgomery, Ala., holds her bell during ceremonies honoring the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream" speech in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. The ceremony took place outside the Dexter Ave. King Memorial Baptist Church where King became pastor in 1954. Smiley said "Rev. King was a great man who helped make this country a better place to live." (AP Photo/Dave Martin) | Dave Martin

WASHINGTON (AP) — From the nation’s capital to a Georgia mountain carved with a Confederate memorial, church bells and hand bells served to answer Dr. Martin Luther King’s call from 50 years ago to “let freedom ring” for all people.

That symbolic sound could be heard Wednesday at more than 300 locations in nearly every state to commemorate King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech at the moment it was delivered, organizers said.

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