Research Catalog

Title

Behind the dream : the making of the speech that transformed a nation / Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly.

Author

Jones, Clarence B.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Connelly, Stuart.

Description

xx, 204 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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.

Subject

• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Influence
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
• 1900-1999
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American > Washington (D.C.)
• African Americans > History > 20th century
• Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• History.
• Speeches.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-198) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

History in the making -- Tuesday -- Wednesday -- A strike of lightning, then fifty years of rolling thunder -- In the present, tense.

ISBN

• 9780230103689
• 0230103685

LCCN

^^2010021207

OCLC

631748997

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library