MLK's+Dream

I HAVE A DREAM! Cut and paste this information into a new page on your Unit 8 Online Notebook.

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


 * OUR WORDS - 100 years ago, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It gave slaves hope and "freedom." But 100 years later, things are still the same. We are not free. **

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


 * OUR WORDS - We have come to the capitol to address the fact that everyone should be equal as addressed by the founding fathers. We are not equal. America has given us a bad check, something we dont deserve. We have come to cash this check. **

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


 * OUR WORDS - We have come here to show the importance of now. It is now time to cash the check. **

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


 * OUR WORDS - If we are violent, we are just like the others. By being peaceful, we can accomplish more. Saytagraha- civil disobedience **

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We cant hate the white population in general. The damage inflicted is in the past. We need to come together. **

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


 * OUR WORDS - We cannot be satisfied until we are equal everywhere. This has to happen. Its a statement of fact. **

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


 * OUR WORDS - This nation will realize that everyone is equal. We will have no previous ideas of people. This is an ongoing project.**

Excerpt 8 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 8]

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - This will be the day that this nation will get over segregation. We will be a great nation. Freedom WILL ring. When it does ring, we will all be a great nation **

AFTER

**If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.** The Church was bombed to hurt the idea of desegregation. KKK involved. 20+ hurt/dead. Civil Rights movement carries on.

KING

** Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**]**. As you do, respond to the following questions **Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?** He destroyed the idea of the "white man's burden."

Yes. He was the leader of the end of the fight for civil rights. He was the person to completely desegregate America.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?**

Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? Yes, he had put so much more effort into the other meaning of the speech to help address a sense of urgency. Not just "one day."