America has just celebrated the 88th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I suspect that centuries in the future, when everyone reading this article is long gone, historians — and perhaps even many average citizens — will know who he was and what he achieved.

King is rightly remembered as the leader of the Civil Rights movement and a voice of moral clarity. But it is sometimes forgotten that he produced two of the greatest persuasive endeavors in American history — one oral, the other in writing, in 1963.

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