Susman Godfrey partner Drew Hansen is quoted extensively in a New York Times article about the rediscovery of the only known handwritten final draft of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Hansen is the author of The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation, which traces the origins and legacy of the address.
The seven-page manuscript offers a rare look at King’s revisions before he took the podium at the 1963 March on Washington. The words “I have a dream,” which King added during the address, do not appear in the draft.
