Daring to dream

Behind The Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed A Nation

ON A sultry late August afternoon in a nation’s capital, a man, who happens to be a black man, young, strong and dignified, moves to the podium and begins to speak. His name is Martin Luther King, Jr, an Atlanta-born Baptist preacher who, for the better part of 10 years has placed himself body and soul on the very forefront of a civil rights movement struggling to gain not only momentum but identity.

Today, he has something to say, something worth saying, and worth hearing. But what makes today different, and special, is that he is about to address an audience estimated at significantly greater than a quarter of a million in number.