US Civil Rights: the March on Washington
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The Dream of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King was asked to give a speech modeled on the Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln. If he had stopped there, it would have been a decent speech, but we probably wouldn't be talking about it today,. And then he just went ex-temporaneous. That somebody in that situation would trust themselves as a minister or as an orator to just say, I'm going to wing it from here on.
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