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