Building The Dream

(CBS)  It was the 1960s when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during a march on Washington. In that one speech, he aroused shame over segregation.

But it was in the 1950s when King delivered another speech. "True peace is the presence of justice and brotherhood," he told a crowd at Bennet College in North Carolina.

The speech was delivered at a time when King was struggling for recognition. It had never been heard by a national audience before it was discovered on a tape in an archive in 1999 and subsequently restored.

King's oratory was the same back then, but his mission was different. In 1958, he couldn't just demand that whites end segregation. He had to recruit the blacks who would risk all to fight it.

"Struggle suffer, sacrifice, and yes die until the walls of segregation are totally crushed," King said during the speech.

Jibreel Khazan was a teenager there that night, and he was so inspired that he and three friends, the Greensboro four, moved to integrate the lunch counters of their North Carolina town. Khazan later became a minister in Massachusetts.

"As he spoke, I felt as if my soul was being pulled up by a giant magnet," Khazan told CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andrews in 1999. "His voice was like thunder."

What would Martin Luther King say about civil rights in America today? It would most certainly be the same thing he said 41 years ago: "We've come a long, long way. But we have a long, long way to go."