(en) Alexandra Alvarez, « Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream": The Speech Event as Metaphor », Journal of Black Studies(en), vol. 18, , p. 337–357 (lire en ligne, consulté le ).
(en) Jon Meacham, « Martin Luther King Jr: Architect of the 21st Century », Time, (lire en ligne, consulté le ) : « At Jackson's remark, the preacher left his rather uninspired text — a departure that put him on a path to speaking words of American scripture, words as essential to the nation's destiny in their way as those of Abraham Lincoln, before whose memorial King stood, and those of Thomas Jefferson, whose monument lay to the preacher's right, toward the Potomac. »
(en) Alexandra Alvarez, « Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream": The Speech Event as Metaphor », Journal of Black Studies(en), vol. 18, , p. 337–357 (lire en ligne, consulté le ).
(en) Stephen Lucas et Martin Medhurst, « "I Have a Dream" Speech Leads Top 100 Speeches of the Century », University of Wisconsin News, bUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, (lire en ligne).
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(en-US) Samantha Crook et Christian Bryant, « How Langston Hughes Led To A 'Dream' MLK Discovery », WKBW, (lire en ligne, consulté le ).