NORTH CAROLINA (WHAS11) -- Students all across the country hear Doctor Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech,but it wasn't the first time King gave that speech.
"I have a dream tonight. One day my little daughter and my two sons will grow up in world not conscious of the color of their skin, but only conscious of the fact that they are members of the human race. I have a dream tonight, " King said.
North Carolina State professor Jason Miller discovered a tape at a North Carolina library with King giving a similar speech eight months before his famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
One man recognized the speech after attending King's first deliverance in a small North Carolina school in 1963.
"After listening to it and seeing it on the news, and I come back and say, 'Hey, you know, that was kind of similar,'" Herbert Tillman said.
Doctor King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech 52 years ago this month.
The entire 55 minute recording of the first speech is not expected to be released until Miller finishes his documentary film.
