Behind the dream
Subtitle: the making of the speech that transformed a nation
By: Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly
Contributors: Connelly, Stuart
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780230103689
Description: "I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established himself as one of the greatest orators of all time. Behind the Dream is a thrilling, behind-the-scenes account of the weeks leading up to the great event, as told by Clarence Jones, co-writer of the speech and close confidant to King. Jones was there, on the road, collaborating with the great minds of the time, and hammering out the ideas and the speech that would shape the civil rights movement and inspire Americans for years to come.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : souls beyond measure; title: History in the making; title: Tuesday; title: Wednesday; title: A strike of lightning, then fifty years of rolling thunder; title: In the present, tense; title: Epilogue: dream on, march on.