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I HAVE A DREAM! 

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


 * OUR WORDS -A hundred years ago President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamtion. During these hundred years african-americans were still being segregated.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -**This means that they marched on Washington because the country had owed them their freedom and desegregation. They know that Congress can desegregate the country. They came in order to make sure congress does this. The bad check is the constitution

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

**OUR WORDS -**This needs to happen now. Many white people thought it was moving fast.

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


 * OUR WORDS -**We cannot be violent. Malcom X is not a violent guy. This has been a non-violent protest and it must stay that way.

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -**They have to work. They can't distrust the whites. If whites are free we must be free too.

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


 * OUR WORDS -**They will not be satisfied until their demands of freedom and desegregation.

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


 * OUR WORDS -I have a dream that one day there will be freedom and there will not be desegregation. Soon African-Americans can sit with whites.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -**We shall be free and this freedom shall be on every piece of American land.

<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?** whites may owe King because he freed them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes Maritn Luther King was "the right man at the right time" becuase without him the civil rights movement would not have happened the way it did.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** I think that King would be upset at how his most famous quote is being used. I think that he only intended it to be only used by him and no one else. Whoever stole the quote from King would be kidnappers of a famous quote.

<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] ||