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

It was the late spring of 1963, and my friend Martin was exhausted. The campaign to integrate the public facilities in Birmingham had been successful but also tremendously taxing. In its aftermath, he wanted nothing more than to take Coretta and the children away for a vacation and forget - forget the looming book deadline, the office politics of his ever-growing Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the constant need to raise funds. Technorati Etiketleri: martin luther king day,coretta,southern christian leadership conference