mahalia jackson wrote the i had a dream speech.
mahalia jackson wrote the i had a dream speech.
who wrote the i had a dream speech?
mahalia jackson
the march on washington speech, known as "i have a dream speech", has been shown to have had several versions, written at several different times. it has no single version draft, but is an amalgamation of several drafts, and was originally called "normalcy, never again". little of this, and another "normalcy speech", ended up in the final draft. a draft of "normalcy, never again" is housed in the morehouse college martin luther king jr. collection of the robert w. woodruff library, atlanta university center and morehouse college. the focus on "i have a dream" comes through the speech's delivery. toward the end of its delivery, noted african american gospel singer mahalia jackson shouted to king from the crowd, "tell them about the dream, martin." king departed from his prepared remarks and started "preaching" improvisationally, punctuating his points with "i have a dream."
i have a dream
in his monograph kraepelin presented 286 examples of dream speech, mainly his own. after 1906 he continued to collect samples of dream speech until his death in 1926. this time the dream speech specimens were almost exclusively his own and the original hand written dream texts are still available today at the archive of the max planck institute of psychiatry in munich. these new dream speech specimens have been published in 1993 in heynick (in part in english translation) and in 2006 in the original german, with numerous valuable notes added. the second dream corpus has not been censored and dates are added to the dreams. as kraepelin in 1906 had been collecting dream speech for more than 20 years, he jotted down his dream speech specimens for more than 40 years, with a scientific viewpoint in mind.
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