The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation

Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King's prophetic utterances galvanized the civil rights movement and became a touchstone for all that the country might someday achieve. The Dream examines that speech on several levels: as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and as a masterfully delivered sermon.