English professor Jason Miller unveiled a website about Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech that he gave in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, a few months before he gave the more famous version of the speech in Washington, D.C. The website, First Dream, includes the restored audio of the speech from Nov. 27, 1962, at a high school gymnasium in Rocky Mount, a brief history of King, photographs, personal letters and an annotated speech transcript. Miller launched the website Friday at the Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences in Rocky Mount. While researching “Origins of the Dream,” his book exploring similarities between King’s speeches and the poetry of Langston Hughes, Miller discovered the recording. 

SOURCE: WBT Charlotte