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 - 100 years ago, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in the South giving hope for equality but nothing has improved for African Americans since. They are still facing discrimination and poverty.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - When the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written all people both black and white were given the rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. However, today blacks have been denied these things told that they were not guaranteed these rights. They are there to "cash in" on Justice and achieve what is rightfully theirs.**

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

**OUR WORDS - Its time for action, its time to end desegregation right now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We must continue to fight without violence. We can not lower ourselves to their level and keep out dignity.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We cannot be against all whites because many of them want to help and realize that the movement is the right thing. We need them in order to be completely successful.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - They will not back down until complete justice and equality is granted.**

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(194,15,15); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Excerpt 7 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7]<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> //And so even though ... I have a dream today!//


 * OUR WORDS - His dream is that White and Blacks one day will be able to coexist together in harmony.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - It is now time to achieve freedom from every corner of the United States and join together as brothers.**

<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?** because he liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race. It is only because of King and the movement that he led that the U.S. can claim to be the leader of the "free world"


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes first he was a minister which put him in touch with the black population and made him a powerful speaker. He also had extreme courage to continue non violently even though he was recieving death threats by the hundreds.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Yes his quotes have been used for anti-Affirmative Action groups which is supposed to help make things for equal for minorities something Martin Luther Kind would've most likely supported.

<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] ||