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Clarence Jones explains how the “I Have a Dream” speech, which he helped write, should be remembered as a declaratory sermon. Jones was a personal friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and worked to help organize the March on Washington.

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Clarence Jones talks about how the size of the audience and the setting being at the symbolic Lincoln memorial in Washington, D.C. influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s delivery of the “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington.

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Clarence Jones discusses how Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech had to persuade Americans to get on board with civil rights: “The only way you’re going to make a historical breakthrough is when you got a majority of the 88 percent of the population–a majority of white people–came to understand that it was in their self interest that we be free.”

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Clarence Jones, who helped write the “I Have a Dream” speech, discusses the majesty of Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice.

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Dr. Clarence Jones discusses Martin Luther King Jr.’s reaction when he heard gospel singer Mahalia Jackson say, “Tell ‘em about the dream.”

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