KING JR., Martin Luther.

I Have a Dream...Unauthorized Broadside Printing.

Rare Unauthorized Broadside Printing of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' Speech; Published by the New York Post on September 1, 1963

New York: New York Post, September 1, 1963.

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Specially issued unauthorized broadside of Dr. King's famed 'I Have a Dream' speech, published by the New York Post on Sunday, September 1, 1963. One page, printed broadside, The nature of this publication is discussed in a lawsuit filed by Dr. King against Mister Maestro, Inc. to protect his speech copyrights: "The New York Post in its issue of September 1, 1963 published the complete text of the speech under the title 'I Have A Dream.' The Post thereafter offered for sale reprints of the speech. Dr. King says that he has not consented in any way to such reprinting and sale of the speech and did not give to the Post any copy of his speech." In very good condition with creasing and two small closed tears to the edge. The entire piece measures 11.5 inches by 15.9 inches. Rare and desirable.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 through 1968. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using the tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs and inspired by the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). With the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He also helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year he and the SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In his final years he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971, and as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.