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 - Martin Luther King is saying that they are not free even the Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. 100 years later they are still not free.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - Martin Luther King is saying that we treat them like a bad check because the 14th amendment already states they have civil rights. He also says the government has promised to give them things and they haven't been doing it.**

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

**OUR WORDS - Martin Luther King believes action needs to be taken now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - Martin Luther King is saying we must be peaceful when attempting to get equality. Also he says we should meet physical force as soul force. There shall be no violence.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - Martin Luther King is saying we must keep moving forward. He is also saying that we got to work together with whites.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We will never be satisfied until it is completely over and we are free and equal.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - Martin Luther King is saying that all African Americans would be equal. He believes it is self evident that equality is coming.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - Martin Luther King is saying that the U.S can not become a great nation without the equality and freedom of African Americans.**

<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?** Whites owe him because he helped liberate the burden on America of race that generates from when it first began.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** He was because he helped lead them and guide them to equality and freedom.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** I think King would be upset at people trying to do such a thing. King wouln't agree with people changing the words he says making them into words that save people from trouble.

<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] ||  ||