Gary Younge, "The Misremembering of 'I Have a Dream'"

[heresluck]

From the cover story of this week's issue of The Nation:
Half a century after the March on Washington and the famous “I Have a Dream” speech, the event has been neatly folded into America’s patriotic mythology. Relatively few people know or recall that the Kennedy administration tried to get organizers to call it off; that the FBI tried to dissuade

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[blacksquirrel]

This is excellent - thanks for the link

[heresluck]

Gary Younge is one of my favorite things about The Nation right now, seriously -- his columns and essays are so consistently insightful.