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Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Newspaper) AudioFile Best Audiobooks - Biography and Record, 2014 The night time prior to the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King asked his aides for advice about another day's speech. "Avoid the lines about 'I have a desire'," Wyatt Walker informed him "It's trite, it's cliché. You've used it too many times already." Martin Luther King delivered at least 350 discussions in 1963 alone. Many speeches have been delivered on civil protection under the law and, indeed, many others beside Martin Luther King's were delivered at the March on Washington. Just what exactly was it that made that particular speech historical? Why do we keep in mind it? How do we keep in mind it? And how about it have we chosen to forget? Gary Younge examines what made the speech so timely...and so timeless. Few at that time could envision the world he was evoking but to attain its seeks, all had to believe it was possible. Fifty years onto it is clear that in eliminating segregation - not racism but formal, codified, explicit discrimination - the civil protection under the law movement delivered the last significant moral triumph in America for which there continues to be a consensus. The speech's charm endures since it remains the most eloquent, poetic, unapologetic and open public articulation of that triumph. Gary Younge is a Guardian columnist and show writer located in the US. His catalogs include Who Are We - And Should it Subject in the 21st Century? and No Place Like Home, shortlisted for the Guardian First E book Honor. He lives along with his family in NEW YORK.
