Insights: News The Story Behind the MLK Family's 'I Have a Dream' Lawsuit

It was two days before the judge was set to make a ruling in the King family’s copyright lawsuit over the “I Have a Dream” speech, and lawyer Joe Beck called the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s youngest son.

“Dex, we have a problem,” Joe Beck told Dexter King, who led the legal battle against CBS. A piece of recently unearthed evidence threatened to destroy the family’s case.

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