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On April 4, 1967, MLK Jr. gave one of the most important speeches in American history, the “Riverside speech,” drawing heavily from a draft by civil rights leader and historian Dr. Vincent G. Harding. Harding had written it over Christmas vacation in 1966.

An Interview With the Man Who Wrote King's Most Dangerous Speech

Vincent G. Harding wrote the speech Martin Luther King Jr. delivered exactly one year before King was assassinated.

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He told this story in his beautiful book. orbisbooks.com/martin-luther-

10:44 PM · Apr 4, 2021