Post by John Green on Aug 11, 2015 23:50:42 GMT
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/11/martin-luther-king-i-have-a-dream-first-recording
Months before the Rev Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech to hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington in 1963, he fine-tuned his civil rights message before a much smaller audience in North Carolina.
Reporters had covered King’s 55-minute speech at a high school gymnasium in Rocky Mount on 27 November 1962, but a recording wasn’t known to exist until English professor Jason Miller found an aging reel-to-reel tape in a town library. Miller played it in public for the first time Tuesday at North Carolina State University.
Months before the Rev Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech to hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Washington in 1963, he fine-tuned his civil rights message before a much smaller audience in North Carolina.
Reporters had covered King’s 55-minute speech at a high school gymnasium in Rocky Mount on 27 November 1962, but a recording wasn’t known to exist until English professor Jason Miller found an aging reel-to-reel tape in a town library. Miller played it in public for the first time Tuesday at North Carolina State University.