It is a dream rooted deeply in the American dream. The speech will be a part of a documentary on King's and Hughes's relationship called "Origins of the Dream" by Miller and documentary filmmaker Rebecca Cerese.īelow is a transcript of the speech's clip:Īnd so my friends of Rocky Mount, I have a dream tonight. Miller said the full audio of the speech in Rocky Mount will be available through a website being developed called. The text to the 1944 speech can be found here. "He even described scenes of black and white children playing together in harmony - famously echoed in the 'Dream' speech." "Brotherly love, nonviolence and freedom from racial hatred are all contained in his 1944 speech," Llewellyn said. Llewellyn said he was surprised other scholars had missed the similarities. Murhpy said he was researching for Llewellyn's first-year seminar when he found similar themes and imagery between "I Have a Dream" and a speech King gave in Dublin, Georgia in 1944 at a Georgia Black Elks speech contest. The speech in Rocky Mount is the first recorded evidence of King's "I Have a Dream." However, John Llewellyn, communications professor at Wake Forest University, and William Murphy, a recent WFU graduate, have identified strong parallels between King's famous speech and another he gave as a 15-year-old high school student. He begins the speech with the famous ‘How Long, Not Long,’ which he makes at the end of the Selma march, then he goes into ‘I Have a Dream,’ and then goes into ‘Let Freedom Ring.’ King’s most famous refrains all together for the only time I know of. “I’ve never heard King combine a public address with the energy of a mass meeting and the force of a civil rights speech,” he said.
Throughout his research, Miller said he has listened to about 120 of King’s speeches, but this one stands out from the rest. Miller said Blood “wrote the book” for the Library of Congress on how to digitize old materials.
Washington High School to audio archivist George Blood in Philadelphia. Miller took the original audiotape recording of King’s speech at Rocky Mount’s old Booker T. “You’re back in that moment in time, a moment that is historical, poetic, transformative and critical to our nation’s history.” King say these words, it was literally the kind of thing we talk about with hair standing up on your arms and chills going down your spine,” he said. “This is the key evidence documenting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech in the town. State University A historic marker in Rocky Mount, N.C.
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