"Relatively few people know or recall that the Kennedy administration tried to get organizers to call it off; that the FBI tried to dissuade people from coming; that racist senators tried to discredit the leaders; that twice as many Americans had an unfavorable view of the march as a favorable one." http://www.thenation.com/article/175764/misremembering-i-have-dream
The Misremembering of 'I Have a Dream'
Fifty years after the March on Washington- Dr. King's most famous speech- like his own political legacy- is widely misunderstood.
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