Not all white newspapers were attuned at first to the depth of the impression King had made. The Washington Post, for example, highlighted Randolph’s speech and made no mention of King’s. By contrast, The New York Times featured a story headlined “‘I Have a Dream…’ Peroration by Dr. King Sums Up a Day the Capital Will Remember,” by James Reston, on a front page containing no fewer than five different stories on the march, arranged in a collage around two large crowd photographs. It was perhaps the zenith of the Times’s pioneer devotion to the civil rights movement.
