(CNN) -- "I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin." The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words in 1963, but this was not the speech that would go down as one of the most important addresses in U.S. history. King spoke these words in Detroit, two months before he addressed a crowd of nearly 250,000 with his resounding "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963.King almost didn't talk about "the dream"Women had to fight to be included on the speakers' platformHaving Hollywood stars attend helped ease Kennedy fears about march
'I Have a Dream' beat _'s 'Ask not what you can do' speech.