George Raveling was a college basketball coach at Washington State, Iowa, and USC at a time when there were very few black head coaches.
On August 28, 1963, as Martin Luther King Jr. waved goodbye to an audience of over 250,000 "March on Washington" participants, Raveling asked King if he could have the speech. King handed Raveling the original typewritten "I Have a Dream" pages. Raveling was on the podium with King at that moment, having volunteered to provide security. He still has the original, and has been offered more than three million dollars for the speech.
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