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, President Lincoln proclaimed that African Americans were free, but they aren't free 100 years later. Because there is still discrimination and segregation.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - The constitution says that everyone is created equal, and that African Americans and whites should be equal.**

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

**OUR WORDS - Now is the time to have America to start acting on the promises that lincoln said 100 years ago.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We need to get our rights, but peacefully.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We need to worry about the present and the future and not the past.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We will continue to do this, until it becomes natural in our life.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -** In the future I want everyone to live with equal rights and in harmony.

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - Until the black community is free, no matter where you live, no one is free.**

AFTER **If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.**

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?** for liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Well there were many civil rights activists, but I think that his views on racism was a key point for being "the right man".

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** I dont think so, because it is getting his point across about his views on racism. It also shows that people respected him, even today.

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] ||