from the text that i had prepared, jackson got up and said tell them about the dream, martin, tell them about the dream. that s when he took the prepared text that i had written, pushed it to the left side of the lectern, looked up over the crowd and then did something unless you ve been around a lot of baptist preachers, you re not going to appreciate what i m about to describe. i was standing behind him. i saw him take his right foot, start taking his right foot and rubbing it up and down from the back of his left heel all the way up to his left knee, starting rubbing that back foot, back foot. that s when i looked and i said, these people out there, they don t know it. but they re about ready to go to church. it was like it was charlie
parker. i was going to say this is like jazz that s right, that s right. when i saw him do that, i said to somebody i know it was another human being, i don t know what nationality. i said these people don t know it, but they re about ready to go to church. the entire rest of the speech about mexia jackson was spontaneous. only when he got to the end of the speech, he looked down in the envelope and wanted to quote something, free at last, free at last, free at last. but everything the first 7 1/2 paragraphs was crafted by me. the stuff about the return check and all that? well, i had had the experience of going into chase bank, the rockefeller family wouldn t help us. i had the experience of seeing