The unknown hero of MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech
- Posted on January 18, 2026
- By CNN
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The unknown hero of MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” address at 1963’s March on Washington is perhaps the most famous speech in American history. But fewer people remember the man behind King’s dream metaphor: a White banker named James Truslow Adams.
