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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
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<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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