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 100 years after the emancipation proclamation, African Americans are still not free or equal to whites. There is still segregation and discrimination.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - The founders of America wrote the Constitution and the Declaration to protect and include all men, including black men, but it is obvious that American citizens have not followed this. Even though they say they cannot help us, but we have come to fight for our justice and our freedom.**

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

**OUR WORDS - Now is the time that we need to make a change and a difference. We need to do it now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - It can't be violent when we are fighting for our freedom. We must fight with our souls and our hearts, not guns.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We are all equal and we all need to work together in order to make any progress. Black and white must work together to accomplish freedom for everyone.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We cannot be satisfied if we are treated like this and we are not treated equal to whites. Until our demands of freedom, desegregation, and equality are met, we will not be satisfied.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - I have a dream that one day we will all truly be treated equal, even in states like Mississippi and Georgia. White and blacks will work together, without any opposition. One day, people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but their character.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - Someday our children will be able to live in a land of freedom, where blacks and whites are equals, and when his day occurs everyone of all race and religion will sing freedom at last.**

<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 King the greatest because he did not only free blacks from segregation but he burdened them from America's turn on race, their hypocracy of race. He made it so that we can say today, we are a free nation were everyone is treated as an equal.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes King was "the right man at the right time". Even though the civil rights campaigns had thousand of people in them, nothing could have been completed without the help and encouragement of King. He was what kept people going and eventually led to freedom for blacks.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Yes king would be upset with the use of his famous quote, because people are using this line in ways that he would not approve of. For things that he would not agree with or fight for. An example of that is it has been used for things for people against affirmitive action such as California Ward Connerly. This use of the famous quote may be a way to get people to go with them, but these things are not good and if King were here today he would not approve of this at all.

<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] ||