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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is one of the most recognized oratories across the world, setting the tone of the United States civil rights movement.
"It became a defining moment for the human rights movement of our time," said King confidant, former U.N. Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young. "They know it in Russia; they knew it in South Africa [and around the world]."
Young was one of many interviewed in the recently aired special, "CNN: Special Investigation Unit, MLK-Words That Changed a Nation."
The program revealed that King's speech was actually called "Normalcy-Never Again."
In fact, the day he delivered the speech before more than 250,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, he improvised the "I Have a Dream" part of the speech.
This was one...