ABSTRACT
There’s a famous story, perhaps apocryphal, about the legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1963, Dr. King was set to deliver a speech in front of thousands at the Washington Monument. In drafting what he was going to say, he couldn’t decide which of two things to focus on: the metaphor of America having written a bad check to its Black citizens or a metaphor based on multiracial harmony that had come to him in a dream.
