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Clarence
Jones, a former attorney of Martin Luther King Jr. who was present at
the creation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech,
revisits the forces that generated the 1963 March on Washington and
that animated the speech that now represents an entire era.

The
author provides numerous intriguing insider insights about life on the
road with King-notably, the amusing moment when Jones, frustrated with
the egos of some of the other speakers elbowing for position in the
event's final, prime slot, asked if any of them really wanted
to follow King to the podium; none did. Jones also confirms a couple of
stories: that the Justice Department did indeed have a "kill switch"
on the sound system, and that gospel singer Mahalia Jackson urged King during the speech
to talk about his dream, at which point King turned his prepared
remarks face down and continued somewhat extemporaneously. Jones
explains how and why he, at the last minute, copyrighted the speech, and
he pays homage to Nelson Rockefeller and Sen. Ted Kennedy-though he is
less generous to JFK and RFK.

Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation (Hardcover)

By Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly

$22.00

ISBN-13: 9780230103689
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Published: Palgrave Macmillan, 1/2011

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