On August 28, 1963, The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought together the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders, along with more than a quarter of a million marchers, to press the U.S. government for equality. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered a speech to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington that became known as the “I Have a Dream” speech. Unknown to Dr. King, Mister Maestro, Inc. and Twentieth Century-Fox Record Company recorded the speech as he delivered it, and later offered the recordings for sale.

Among Federal records, the "I Have a Dream" speech exists as a transcript entered into evidence in the ensuing Federal copyright infringement case, Martin Luther King, Jr. vs. Mister Maestro, Inc. and Twentieth Century-Fox Record Company, in which Dr. King and his attorneys claimed that the speech was copyrighted, and the recordings violated that copyright. Among the papers filed in the case is a deposition from Dr. King signed in his own hand.

Page 1 Click to Enlarge

Last Page   Click to Enlarge

CITATION

Image Top Left:

CITATION