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Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963



Posted for as long as YouTube allows...

Washington Post
8/27/13

Why you won’t see or hear the ‘I have a dream’ speech

A few months after King delivered the speech, he sent a copy of the address
to the U.S. Copyright office and listed the remarks as a “work not reproduced for sale.”
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Since 1963, King and, posthumously, his estate have strictly enforced control
over use of that speech and King’s likeness.

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National Journal
Mike Magner
August 26, 2013

After 'I Have a Dream' Speech, 'A Shudder Went Through Me'—and Through the Nation

<snip>By now it is well known that Jones did not include the words "I have a dream"
in the "suggested textual material" he drafted for King before the speech.
King had used the phrase earlier in speeches in Detroit and Rocky Mount, N.C., Jones said,
and it was singer Mahalia Jackson who encouraged King to go back to it when she called out to him in mid-speech
from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial: "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin, tell 'em about the dream!"<snip>

"He, in response to Mahalia, began to speak extemporaneously," Jones said....
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[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, he deviated from his prepared text.

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...and two days later the (WC Sullivan) followed his leader of FBI Director (J Edgar Hoover) writing:

"... we must mark him now ... as the most dangerous Negro
of the future in the nation from the standpoint of communism,
the Negro and national security"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...972_story.html

Washington Post
8/17/13

William Sullivan, head of the FBI’s domestic intelligence division
during the King surveillance program, told the committee in 1975,

“No holds were barred. We have used [similar] techniques against Soviet agents.
[The same methods were] brought home against any organization against which we were targeted.
We did not differentiate. This is a rough, tough business.”
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Sullivan, in his 1975 testimony before the Church panel, backtracked from his post-speech memo,
noting “we had to engage in a lot of nonsense which we ourselves really did not believe in.”

It's hard to see that since 1975 anything done in the name of "government security" has really changed.

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Five Live have been broadcasting various shorts on the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior all week.
They had an interesting call from a Yorkshireman who was there on the day. He was studying engineering - in England - but admitted to being politically active and especially interested in the American civil rights movement. He had planned a trip to the States during the holidays, so made plenty sure he was there for the march.

His take on the epoch shattering speech?
[my precis] "I don't really remember any of the speeches, I was just so pleased to be there, to be walking for civil rights and equality."

He was in no way denigrating "I have a dream" or any other speech.
But I did enjoy his honesty.
Blessed are the cheesemakers indeed.