11:22 pm UTC Jan. 24, 2021
Montgomery, Ala. In the summer of 1979, Stevie Wonder called Coretta Scott King to tell her about a dream he had.
“I said to her, you know, ‘I had a dream about this song. And I imagined in this dream I was doing this song. We were marching, too, with petition signs to make for Dr. King’s birthday to become a national holiday,’” he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2011.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow was excited, but doubtful.
CNN s Anderson Cooper interviews Stevie Wonder in 2011 about the Motown star s years-long push for a M.L. King holiday.YouTube screen capture
Aretha Franklin's one demand when performing involved the air conditioning. Aretha Franklin's one demand when performing involved the air conditioning.
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YOUNGSTOWN Natalia McRae strongly feels if you read a speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered during a victorious moment nearly 56 years ago, it quickly will become apparent that his words are just as relevant today.
“Dr. King said this in 1965 at the end of the Selma-to-Montgomery march. It is still appropriate today,” McRae, an East High School senior and member of Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past, said.
McRae was referring to King’s “How Long, Not Long” speech that he delivered to about 25,000 people who gathered March 25, 1965, in Montgomery, Ala., at the conclusion of the famous five-day, 54-mile walk for voting rights. King’s words were intended mainly to reassure the masses that the days of brutality in the South against blacks by white people were waning.