IHaveADream


 * 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 - One hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in hopes that slaves would be free, but African Americans are still discriminated. America hasn't followed their promise.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - In the Constitution and Declaration when they said Americans would be free and have rights, they meant it for to be for every American. Yet, America doesn't follow the Constitution or Declaration and is discriminating African Americans. Dr. King compares this to a check and says that America has given African Americans faulty checks and now blacks are coming to get good checks.**

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

**OUR WORDS -This needs to happen now. Many whites thought that the civil right's movement was moving too fast. He's saying it can't be tomorrow, in a month, or in a year. It has to happen now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We must not be violent. Sole force, came from Gahndi. Sole force means that your fighting comes from within and not fighting physically.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5]  //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We must work together and not hold grudges against whites. We have to do it with peace and with white men. This part isn't that popular.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We will not be satisfied until justice is served. We want total equality. We don't want just a little, we want total equality without discrimination.**

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. He wants everyone to have**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-size: 140%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; 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="font-family: 'Arial Black'; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-size: 140%;">KING

**<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**] ** <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;">. As you do, respond to the following questions **Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?**


 * 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? **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-size: 140%;">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] ||  ||