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[https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/20/us/martin-luther-king-jr-listener-blake by John Blake 20/1/20 CNN] | [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/20/us/martin-luther-king-jr-listener-blake by John Blake 20/1/20 CNN] | ||
Most people recall what the cameras caught: King declaring “I have a dream!” before 250,000 jubilant supporters at the March on Washington during a muggy, sun-splashed summer day. But there was one crucial exchange that the cameras didn’t catch. | Most people recall what the cameras caught: King declaring “I have a dream!” before 250,000 jubilant supporters at the March on Washington during a muggy, sun-splashed summer day. But there was one crucial exchange that the cameras didn’t catch. | ||
=====< Everyone from the Tea Party to immigrants rights groups want a piece of Dr. King===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197954537 by GENE DEMBY 10/1/24 npr] | |||
What's good, y'all? You're listening to CODE SWITCH. I'm Gene Demby. So way back in the very early days of CODE SWITCH, in 2013, way before we had a podcast, even, some of my colleagues on the team ran this Twitter feed, back when, you know, it was still called Twitter. That account was named @todayin1963, and the idea behind it was really simple. Every day the account would tweet out news items from newspapers from that same corresponding day but 50 years earlier, in 1963. | |||
