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A fact from Maude Ballou appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 February 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that
Martin Luther King Jr.'s secretary Maude Ballou edited early versions of his iconic "
I Have a Dream" speech? "“Though I was much more than that,” says Ballou, her elegant tapered fingers resting on her freckled cheek. “I booked flights, research, writing. I did it all.” This included editing versions of the “I Have a Dream” speech that King delivered at Southern churches long before the 1963 March on Washington."
[1]
ALT1:... that Maude Ballou,
Martin Luther King Jr.'s secretary, was described by a
historian as "the number one person he’s relying on to get the work done”? "Historian David Garrow, author of the monumental King chronicle “Bearing the Cross,” says that “Maude was dealing with both King’s travel schedule and this huge amount of incoming mail” in the years after he landed on the cover of Time magazine and was perpetually overextended. “You look through the papers of the Montgomery period, and up to 85 percent of the signatures are in Maude’s hand. There’s no question that she’s running his life, that she’s the number one person he’s relying on to get the work done.”"
[2]
The article is long enough and new enough with no copyright violations. Both hooks are directly cited and the promoter can choose the hook. However, this is your 6th DYK credit so a QPQ is needed.
SL93 (
talk)
02:03, 29 January 2021 (UTC)reply
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A fact from Maude Ballou appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 February 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that
Martin Luther King Jr.'s secretary Maude Ballou edited early versions of his iconic "
I Have a Dream" speech? "“Though I was much more than that,” says Ballou, her elegant tapered fingers resting on her freckled cheek. “I booked flights, research, writing. I did it all.” This included editing versions of the “I Have a Dream” speech that King delivered at Southern churches long before the 1963 March on Washington."
[1]
ALT1:... that Maude Ballou,
Martin Luther King Jr.'s secretary, was described by a
historian as "the number one person he’s relying on to get the work done”? "Historian David Garrow, author of the monumental King chronicle “Bearing the Cross,” says that “Maude was dealing with both King’s travel schedule and this huge amount of incoming mail” in the years after he landed on the cover of Time magazine and was perpetually overextended. “You look through the papers of the Montgomery period, and up to 85 percent of the signatures are in Maude’s hand. There’s no question that she’s running his life, that she’s the number one person he’s relying on to get the work done.”"
[2]
The article is long enough and new enough with no copyright violations. Both hooks are directly cited and the promoter can choose the hook. However, this is your 6th DYK credit so a QPQ is needed.
SL93 (
talk)
02:03, 29 January 2021 (UTC)reply
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 January 2024 and 9 May 2024. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
VSJSTUDENT (
article contribs).