Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963.
"In 1952 Rev. Archibald Carey gave a speech at the Republican National Convention.
Here is part of that “not so well known” speech by Rev. Archibald Carey, Jr. at the Republican Convention in 1952"
"We, Negro Americans, sing with all loyal Americans:
My country ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims’ pride
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!
That’s exactly what we mean –
from every mountain side, let freedom ring.
Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains
of Vermont and New Hampshire;
not only from the Catskills of New York;
but from the Ozarks in Arkansas,
from the Stone Mountain in Georgia,
from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
– let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States,
but for the disinherited of all the earth —
may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside,
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