11:22 pm UTC Jan. 24, 2021
Montgomery, Ala. — In the summer of 1979, Stevie Wonder called Coretta Scott King to tell her about a dream he had.
“I said to her, you know, ‘I had a dream about this song. And I imagined in this dream I was doing this song. We were marching, too, with petition signs to make for Dr. King’s birthday to become a national holiday,’” he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2011.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow was excited, but doubtful.
CNN's Anderson Cooper interviews Stevie Wonder in 2011 about the Motown star's years-long push for a M.L. King holiday.YouTube screen capture