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The Handwritten Final Draft of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' Speech Was Considered Lost. It Turned Out to Be Sitting in a Desk Drawer for Decades

Across seven yellow notepad pages, King is seen wrestling with word choice and revising his remarks the night before the March on Washington. The manuscript will head to auction in January and is expected to pull in more than $10 million

The Handwritten Final Draft of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' Speech Was Considered Lost. It Turned Out to Be Sitting in a Desk Drawer for Decades

We haven't written up this one. Smithsonian has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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