Mahalia Jackson encouraged its speaker to improvise.
Three days before this speech, its speaker and Roy Wilkins got interrogated about Bayard Rustin on Meet the Press. Mahalia Jackson encouraged its speaker to improvise. At one point, this speech quotes the entirety of "My Country, Tis of Thee." This speech begins "five score years ago", alluding to the (*) Gettysburg address. Its speaker says that America has defaulted on a promissory note and asks for judgment by the "content of [one's] character." In its final section, this speech mentions the red hills of Georgia and repeats "Let freedom ring." For 10 points, name this 1963 speech given during the March on Washington by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Three days before this speech, its speaker and Roy Wilkins got interrogated about Bayard Rustin on Meet the Press.
“I Have a Dream” speech