I+Have+A+Dream

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


 * OUR WORDS - He's referring back to Abraham Lincoln when he is talking about the great American. He is saying that at that moment, people thought African Americans were free but they never truly got freedom. They were still discriminated against and never truly got all the freedoms that Americans get.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - He's talking about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and how it promised every american unalienable rights and that America forgot about that and African Americans weren't given Unalienable rights even though they were promised these rights. When he refers to the check he is saying that they aren't filling out their promise that they promised every man.**

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

**OUR WORDS - He is saying that Now is the time to end the segregation and let their be equality amongst all. It's time to fulfill the promise that they were promised over a hundred years ago. Now is time for all of the Americans to be equal.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We must gain freedom by peaceful ways and not violence. They should protest peacefully and not violently.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We can't turn their backs on all of the white community because some of them want the same things that they do and they came here today to support them. THey should walk hand in hand trying to successfully gain freedom and equality amongst all.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We can't be satisfied until there are equal rights amongst all. They won't stop fighting until they are completely equal, not kind of equal but completely free and equal.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - He is saying that he has a dream for freedom and equality for everyone. He hopes that his children will be able to play with white boys and girls and they are all equal. He is pointing specific things out and calling places out that are really badly stricken with segregation.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - He starts by saying the words to "My Country Tis of Thee," he's talking about how there should be freedom on everywhere from this day on. When the day comes we truly get freedom we will say, "free at llast, free at last, good god almighty im 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?** The article said stated that the whites should owe King the greatest debt because he liberated them from the burden America has for the age old hypocrisy about race.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes he was "the right man at the right time." People think it's impossible to have the Civil Rights movement unfold without MLK.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** The article is saying that no, he would not have endorsed the ways it's being used now. He wouldn't support it because it's slogans for opponents of affirmative action.

<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]

[|Some King historical sites from Taft's travels] [|Some King historical video from Taft's travels] ||