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STORY: President Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, marked 50 years since Martin Luther King's landmark "I have a dream" speech by calling economic injustice the "great unfinished business" of the civil rights movement.
Speaking to a crowd of many thousands who had gathered in the rain at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, the site of King's address on August 28, 1963, Obama said the men and women of the civil rights movement where not seeking an abstract idea but economic opportunity as well.
"What does it profit a man, Dr. King would ask, to sit at an integrated lunch counter if you can't afford the meal?" Obama said.
Obama's address capped a week-long celebration of King's historic call for racial and economic justice, which came to symbolize the struggle for equality among blacks and whites in America.
Obama's comments echoed his remarks during a town hall-style meeting last week in Vestal, New York, where
