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 - Even after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed 100 years ago, African Americans are still not free.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - America did not keep the promise made that every man would be equal, said in the Constitution-14th Amendment and Declaration of Independence. The "bad check" is the 14th Amendment.**

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

**OUR WORDS - Now is the time to take action. Some people thought the Civil Rights movement wasn't moving fast enough, and others thought it was moving too fast.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We must not be violent, but instead use peace and nonviolence in the fight for civil rights.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We cannot hold grudges against whites; we must work together to gain civil rights.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We will be satisfied when we are completely free and equal; only a small part of equality won't do. We want them the whole thing.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - He hopes that someday white and black children will work together as one.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - If America will be considered the land of the free, freedom must exist in all groups and races. He calls out certain states-Tennessee and Georgia.**

<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?** King freed whites from the burden of centuries old racism. He made America really be the leader of the "free world" without a sense of disbelief.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, the revolution was over a hundred years old and King simply came along when the movement had grown to such a large extent. King led the movement from that point on and you cannot think of the Civil Rights Movement without thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Yes, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" is being used by California's Ward Connerly. It has become the slogan 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] ||