The Smithsonian Institution announced Tuesday that Martin Luther King Jr.’ s original “I Have a Dream” speech has gone on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington to mark the historic address’s 60th anniversary.
It is considered one of history’s greatest speeches and an anthem of the civil rights movement. As he delivered it, King summarized the plight and aspirations of African Americans and expressed the dream that all people might one day live together in peace and friendship.
“I had used the phrase many times before and I just felt I wanted to use it here. I don’t know why. I hadn’t thought about it before the speech … and at that point, I just turned aside from the manuscript altogether, and didn’t come back to it.”The speech has been on display several times before at the museum, first in 2021 and most recently from January to February of this year.
King gave the speech’s manuscript that day to Washington native George Raveling, then 26, who was a star basketball player and 1960 graduate of Villanova University. Raveling was near the podium that day as a security volunteer.Raveling, now 86 and a retired college basketball coach and businessman, said that when the speech was over, he simply asked King whether he could have it.
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