MLK+Speech

I HAVE A DREAM! 

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


 * OUR WORDS - The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the south, but African-Americans are still discriminated against today.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - MLK compares the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to a bad check. He says that African-Americans have been given a "bad check" in life and doesn't give them equality. The Fourteenth Amendment is like a "bad check" that has "bounced."**

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

**OUR WORDS - Action needs to happen now, the civil rights movement should be moving faster.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We must not use violence to try to solve problems. "Soul force" came from Gandhi, who pushed for civil disobedience.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We can't turn against whites, we need to work together with whites in the movement in order to succeed.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We will never be satisfied until we have total equality. We will never be satisfied with just a little equality.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - He has a dream that whites and blacks can unite together to form an equal country.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - He hopes that freedom can be given to blacks and all people will be able to unite in equality.**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; color: rgb(194,15,15);"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; 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.** -16th Baptist Church in Alabama was bombed. -Four young girls were instantly killed in the basement.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; 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?** -He thinks this because he saved the country from America's hipocrisy about race. -Only after the movement was America known as the "land of the free"-

-King was a preacher and was able to motivate large crowds of people.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** -He thinks King was "the right man at the right time"

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** -The "I Have A Dream" portion of his speech is used in ways that don't connect to civil rights.