At approximately 4 AM on August 28, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., after hours of writing and editing in his room at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, completed the speech that he would give at the March on Washington later that day. Focused on limiting his remarks to five minutes, and considering both word choice and flow, Dr. King wrote the final draft of the speech in blue ink across seven yellow legal pad pages after days of discussions with many advisorsincluding trusted speech writer Edward T. Clayton. These seven handwritten pages would be given to his assistants to be typed and sent to the media. Hours later, he would deliver those words, known as the I Have A Dream speech, to 250,000 people. The stirring words that he delivered that afternoon have come to be regarded as the most important speech of the 20th Century, and one of the most important speeches in American history. Now, decades later, those seven yellow pages with Dr. King’s distinctive