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Cbss nikole killion got a rare look at the draft of the historic speech. >> i have a dream. >> before there was a dream, there was a draft. >> this was the first draft of the speech that later became "i have a dream." >> reporter: entitled "normalcy never again," it did not include the word dream according to vicki crawford, who oversees the morehouse college king collection at the woodruff library. >> we are inside the vault. >> where cbs news was granted rare access to kings personal papers an...

Author and former speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum unearthed the speeches that were not delivered at turning points in history.

And as dr. king listened to the others speak, he revised his own speech. no one knows why, but activist dorothy cotton shared with me her theory, a story she once told dr. king. >> and i was telling him, i wish you could have been here last night, and that you could have heard this girl talking to this group of folk. so giving, so loving. saying all she wanted was her little girl to be able to play with this white girl. you know, this very blond, blue-eyed girl standing there saying to this blac...

>> the day of the march, dr. king takes this only known copy of his speech called "normalcy - never again" with him. nowhere does it mention his dream. >> i now have the pleasure to present to you, dr. martin luther king. >> with the lincoln memorial behind him and facing a quarter of a million people, dr. king delivers his speech. >> i was standing up and to the side. >> now is the time. >> after he went through all this stuff about what we are here today, so forth and so forth, he paused. what...

>> the inner circle of dr. king felt that the "i have a dream" portion was hackneyed and trite because hed used it so many times in other cities. >> dr. king had been writing about this dream for decades. his inspiration can be traced back to these books in dr. kings private library. in his well-worn copy of "the christ of the american road," dr. king underlined -- >> america is a dream unfulfilled, a place where race and birth and color are transcended by the fact of a common brotherhood. >> in...