MLK+Dream

 

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


 * OUR WORDS -** 100 years ago, the Emancipation Proclamation did free the slaves, but they are still not truly free. The African Americans still face a huge amount of discrimination.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** The Government has not made good on their promise to give equal rights to everyone.

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

**OUR WORDS -** He is saying that everyone needs to participate, and do something NOW about all of the Racial Injustice.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** Our problems should be fixed not with violence, but with peace and dignity.

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -** We must all work together, and that includes white people.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** We will not be satisfied until we get equal rights for everyone everywhere.

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


 * OUR WORDS - He has a dream that everyone will be equal everywhere in the US.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -** When everyone is equal, the Country will truly be unified.

<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 " Liberated them from the burden of America's century old hypocrisy about race."


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, because he worked his magic at the time when America seemed to need it most.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Probably not, because it is used to make important changes in the US.

<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] ||