I+Have+a+Dream

Excerpt 1 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 1] //Five score years ago, ... a shameful condition.//


 * OUR WORDS -** Negros still are not free 100 years later after the EP was issued. They're crippled by segregation and discrimination and are in the depths of poverty in a land of prosperity.

Excerpt 2 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 2] //In a sense ... the security of justice.//


 * OUR WORDS -** All the black people there that day were there to fight for their rights that were guaranteed to the in the Constitution: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; also for equal rights that are equal with whites in all areas of life.

Excerpt 3 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 3] //We have also come ... Now is the time.//

**OUR WORDS -** Now is the time to get rid of segregation, discrimination, and racial injustice in the US. To make good of the promises in the Constitution and of democracy.

Excerpt 4 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 4] //But there is something ... soul force.//


 * OUR WORDS -** To gain equal rights, you must protest peacefully and avoid violence at all costs.

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -** Because of the things some whites have done, negros shouldn't mistrust all whites. Whites and negros have to work together; destinys are linked.

Excerpt 6 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 6] //There are those ... like a mighty stream."//


 * OUR WORDS -** Negros won't be satisfied until they have all the equal civil rights that all whites have all across the United States. They will be satisfied when they are completely equal with whites.

Excerpt 7 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7] //And so even though ... I have a dream today!//


 * OUR WORDS - MLK has a dream that all black Americans will have equal rights to that of white Americans and can live together in peace and harmony.**

Excerpt 8 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 8]

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -** The US will only become a great nation when everyone all over the country is equal. Let freedom ring out everywhere in th US, and people will be free at last.

<span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15);"> <span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15);">   AFTER **If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.**

<span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15);"> KING

**<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**] **<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">. As you do, respond to the following questions **Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?** for liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race. It is only because of King and the movement that he led that the U.S. can claim to be the leader of the "free world" without inviting smirks of disdain and disbelief.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes he was. He was an energetic peaceful civil rights leader that stopped violence and aggression towards black and ended segregation in the US when the nation was starting to split apart and become divided on the issue of civil rights.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Yes he would be, because it's used by opponents of affirmative action and used in support of violence to get civil rights in minority groups.

<span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15);"> MEMORIALS

There are many memorials to King around the United States, and there will soon be a new one in Washington D.C.! Check out some of the links below, and look at the video of the new National Memorial.


 * || [|Washington, DC, **Martin Luther King** Jr. National **Memorial**]

[|The King Center]

[|**Martin Luther King** Jr National Historic Site]

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