Only Known Manuscript of MLK's "I Have a Dream" Could Fetch $10M at Auction
The public will be able to view the handwritten final draft of the iconic speech at Christie's New York before it goes under the hammer in January.
Only one known handwritten manuscript of Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, will be auctioned at Christie's on January 22, 2027. After a public viewing in New York, the document is anticipated to surpass the $10 million mark. Civil rights leader Xernona Clayton found the papers in her late husband Edward T. Clayton's desk drawer in the 1990s, and recently rediscovered the manuscript, confirming its status as the sole surviving handwritten final draft.
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