![]() ![]() It was the heart of the civil rights movement - eight years after the anti-segregation Montgomery bus boycott three years after the lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville and Greensboro, N.C. 28, 1963, at the biggest, most important civil rights demonstration in American history. He came to rue the phrase, and by the time he died, the speech had faded from public memory. The march wasn't King's first use of the "dream" refrain. ![]() There are other things that most of us don't know about this storied speech. Having written a good speech - a working title was "Normalcy - Never Again" - King instead gave one of the greatest of the 20th century. That refrain, and the part of the address it punctuated and propelled, was improvised on the spot. took the lectern at the March on Washington 50 years ago to deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech, the text in his hand didn't contain the words "I have a dream." ![]()
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