Lost version of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech rediscovered

The only known final manuscript version of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech will be exhibited publicly for the first time later this month and sold at auction in January.

The project was held by King’s public relations manager, Edward T. Clayton, said Christie’s, the auction house that will facilitate the sale. Clayton’s widow first found the draft in the late 1990s, but returned it to her late husband’s office, unaware that it was the only known final handwritten draft. She rediscovered the draft in 2024.

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