MLKs+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, African Americans were set free from slavery. Still 100 years later, they haven't got their rights and haven't been created equal as they were promised. No political or economic freedom.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - This I.O.U. that the Constitution created for life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, is a faulty I.O.U. They haven't gotten it yet.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We have gathered here to get our rights and freedoms that America has to offer. Now is the time to get them.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - No violence is necessary in our protests. We can't have freedom from being bitter and hated. Use soul force instead of physical force.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5]

//The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - Whites must join us because their destiny in entwined with ours. Don't think that all white people are like the military.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We can't be satisfied** **until policemen stop their brutality,** **until we gain our freedom, until we are created equal.**

Excerpt 7 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7]

//And so even though ... I have a dream today!//

**OUR WORDS - I have a dream that blacks and whites can join up and work together. People should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. EQUALITY.**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - Let freedom be everywhere and for everyone.**


 * HUGE TURNING POINT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.**

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?** The author feels that whites owe King the greatest debt because liberated them from a racial hypocrisy that has been going on in America for centuries.

King was because for 2 centuries, blacks weren't able to gain there freedom. Without him, the movement most likely wouldn't be as effective as it was. The black community needed someone like King, and he did come at the right time.
 * 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? King would definitely be upset with some of things that his "line" was endorsed for. People like Ward Connerly have insisted that if King were alive, he would support him. This would be highly unlikely though because Ward Connerly is interpreting King's quote differently then was intended. He believes that it doesn't matter if kids are segregated, as long are kids are getting educated.