MLK

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 -** After the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years before, the Negro people still are facing with the shame and terror of segregation ad discrimination.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** The authors of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution spoke of the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but America has misunderstood this meaning to only have these rights for the whites; and they have gone there on that day to "cash a check", meaning they were coming to the capital to change the laws and to make everything equal for both blacks and whites.

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

**OUR WORDS -** The laws need to be changed now.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** The march has to remain peaceful and nonviolent and "soul force".

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -** <span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15);">We shouldn't blame and hate all the white people, we must work together because, their freedom is linked to the whites.

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Excerpt 6 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 6]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> //There are those ... like a mighty stream."//


 * OUR WORDS - <span style="color: rgb(194, 15, 15);"> We are not satisfied with the way we are being treated, and justice needs to take over and grant us freedom and desegregation. **

<span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: rgb(194, 15, 15);"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Excerpt 7 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> //<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">And so even though ... I have a dream today! //


 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">OUR WORDS - ** I have a dream that one day that the great country of the United States of America will be desegregated.

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(194, 15, 15); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Excerpt 8 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 8]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">

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

<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?**


 * 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="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] ||