1 L. G. Davis, I Have a Dream: The Life and Times of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973).

2 A. Ayres, ed., The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Penguin Books, 1993).

3 Davis, I Have a Dream, 137.

4 K. D. Miller and E. M. Lewis, “Touchstones, Authorities, and Marian Anderson: The Making of ‘I Have a Dream,’” in The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, ed. B. Ward and T. Badger (New York: New York University Press, 1996), 151.

5 Ayres, The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr., 62–63.

6 E. Rothstein, “A Resonance That Shaped a Vision of Freedom,” New York Times, June 29, 2006, B7.

7 J. F. Wilson and C. C. Arnold, Public Speaking as a Liberal Art, 3rd ed. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1974), 337.

8 P. Bizzell and B. Herzberg, The Rhetorical Tradition (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1990), 32, 310.

9 K. K. Dwyer and M. M. Davidson, “Is Public Speaking Really More Feared Than Death?” Communication Research Reports 29, no. 2 (2012): 99–107, 106.

10 Ibid., 100.

11 K. E. Menzel and L. J. Carrell, “The Relationship between Preparation and Performance in Public Speaking,” Communication Education 43, no. 1 (1994): 17, 24.

12 R. R. Behnke and C. R. Sawyer, “Milestones of Anticipatory Public Speaking Anxiety,” Communication Education 48, no. 2 (1999): 165, 171.

13 J. C. McCroskey, An Introduction to Rhetorical Communication (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986), 31.

14 A. N. Finn, C. R. Sawyer, and P. Schrodt, “Examining the Effect of Exposure Therapy on Public Speaking State Anxiety,” Communication Education 58, no. 1 (2009): 92–109, 104.

15 J. Ayres, “Comparing Self-Constructed Visualization Scripts with Guided Visualization,” Communication Reports 8 (1995): 193–99.

16 C. R. Sawyer and R. R. Behnke, “State Anxiety Patterns for Public Speaking and the Behavior Inhibition System,” Communication Reports 12 (1999): 34.

17 C.-F. Hsu, “The Relationships of Trait Anxiety, Audience Nonverbal Feedback, and Attributions to Public Speaking State Anxiety,” Communication Research Reports 26, no. 3 (2009): 237–46, 244.