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 - The Emancipation Proclamation did not keep its promise as African Americans are still not free.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - He compares the Declaration and the Constitution to a check. The Declaration is a bad check because it promises freedom, but does not live up to it.**

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

**OUR WORDS - This all needs to happen now. We need action to happen right away.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We must not be violent.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We have to work together with the whites and solve this problem together.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We won't be satisfied with minimal rights. We want all of them.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - He has a dream that in the future people will join together, black and whites, and work together in peace.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - Let there be freedom everywhere in the US.**

<span style="color: rgb(194,15,15); font-family: 'Arial Black';"><span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(194,15,15); font-family: 'Arial Black';"> AFTER **If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.**

<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(194,15,15); font-family: 'Arial Black';">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 was the one that gave us a free country. He gave us the freedom from the burden of discrimation and segregation in the past. MLK gave integration to the country as a whole.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** MLK was a Reverend at the tie. This would help him move towards freedom because he was able to reach out to many people. The church was the main black institution. He had courage, living through and dealing with the many death threats to him and his family.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Some people have been using his line as their slogan; Connely used his quote for a group against positive action about races. He can be proud of the many people that take his quote as it means, and hopes to continue good. There are those that he would be upset with, changing the meaning and distorting the picture that he creates with this quote.

<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(194,15,15); font-family: 'Arial Black';">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] ||