They were written over a number of years, the speech and its themes evolving out of a variety of sources beyond the Holy Bible, “My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” and the Emancipation Proclamation. King’s speech is a foundational text of the American experiment, but the words were not handed down from on high. Of the #1 declamation, Martin Medhurst, professor of speech communication at Texas A&M said, “ eloquent vision of a day when his own children ‘would live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character’ persuasively articulated the American dream within the context of the civil rights struggle.”ĭr.
Martin Luter King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, delivered of course, during the August 1963 March on Washington. The experts were asked to evaluate the silver-tongued on the basis of social and political impact, and rhetorical artistry. At the dawn of the 21st-century, researchers at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Texas A&M University sought the opinions of 137 scholars of American oratory on the best speech of the 20th-century.
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