“It really shocked me,” Jones recalled.
“Mahalia Jackson was his favorite gospel singer,” Jones recalled.
“He took the written text … and shoved it to the side of the podium,” Jones recalled.
Thank God almighty, we are free at last.”As the thunderous applause passed, “Martin looked at me and said, ‘How do you think I did?’ ” Jones recalled.
King and Rabbi Abraham Heschel standing in the middle room, they’re both sobbing,” Jones recalled.
Persons:
John Avlon, “, Martin Luther King Jr, Franklin D, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Reagan, Clarence B, Jones, King, ”, ” Jones, King “, …, Martin, Lincoln – “, Mahalia Jackson, “ Mahalia Jackson, Dora McDonald, Mahalia, Martin Luther King, Jr, Liz Hafalia, Jackson, hadn’t, he’d, ” King, Georgia ”, “ Martin, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, Abraham Joshua Heschel, “ Dr, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Clarence, ” Clarence Jones
Organizations:
CNN, Lions, Washington, Kennedy White House, Willard, Lincoln, Lincoln –, University of San, San Francisco Chronicle, Martin Luther King Jr . Research, Education Institute, Stanford University, Civil Rights Movement, Twitter, Facebook
Locations:
“ Lincoln, Lincoln, Washington, Independence, University of San Francisco, Detroit, New Hampshire, Georgia, Hitler’s Germany, America, Catskill