I+Have+A+Dream

I HAVE A DREAM! 

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


 * OUR WORDS -** Even though on paper they are technically free, African Americans are still struggling with segregation and discrimination one hundred years after.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** The fourteenth amendment is supposed to give the African Americans freedom and equal rights, but America is saying that this is not possible, even though it is.

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

**OUR WORDS -** We MUST take action now, not later, now. We have to move faster!

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


 * OUR WORDS -** We have to use peaceful protesting-no violence- and act now without giving up.

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -** We have to learn to love white people. As they have come here today, they have realized that we stand together. We need the help of white Americans.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** We will not be satisfied and will not stand down until we have EVERY freedom and equal right we deserve and ask for.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** It will be difficult but we all have to reach the top. My dreams is to see equality and freedom for all African American people.

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -** Everywhere and everyone will be free and will be able to truthfully say that he is free.

<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 author expresses this opinion because he believes that Dr. King freed them of America's hypocrisy towards race.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, he was. He was "the right man at the right time" because after the work and trys of many other people to end segregation built up over time, Dr. King was the high point of it. With his speech and tactics, he led America to the end of segregation and discrimination.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** No, he would not, because interpreters of this quote have filtered out his sense of urgency. King wanted action now. Not later.

<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] ||