On Martin Luther King Day, remembering the first draft of ‘I Have a Dream’

By Clarence B. Jones | Sunday, January 16, 2011 | Washington Post

“…If this march were going to come together in time, he would have to escape all the distractions. (This was a man, after all, whose best writing was done inside a jail cell.) He needed to get away to a place where very few people could reach him.
That would be my house in Riverdale, N.Y….”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/14/AR2011011406266.html

 

 

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