Martin Luther King: the story behind his 'I have a dream' speech

It's 50 years since King gave that speech. Gary Younge finds out how it made history (and how it nearly fell flat)

The night before the March on Washington, on 28 August 1963, Martin Luther King asked his aides for advice about the next day's speech. "Don't use the lines about 'I have a dream', his adviser Wyatt Walker told him. "It's trite, it's cliche. You've used it too many times already."

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