I thought MLK Day would be a good day to retell an incredible story that you might not know .
Reverend Martin Luther King gives a speech in Washington, DC. The date was August 28, 1963, 200,000 show up, and King's "I have a dream" goes down in history as one of the most important, famous speeches in American history. After King spoke, a young man asks Dr. King if he can have his speech notes. Dr. King obliges. What 24-year old had the foresight and the gumption to ask? Former college basketball coach and current Nike exec George Raveling. For nearly 45 years George Raveling has been the proud guardian of the original typewritten "I have a dream" speech.
Read Time magazine article, "Guardian of The Dream" (Aug. 28, 2003)
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