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 -** Even though on paper they said that African Americans would be free, one hundred years later they still are not free.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** Even though the government has promised Freedom to African Americans, and promised the unalienable rights to all people, they have not come through with their promise.

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

**OUR WORDS -** Freedom has to come to African Americans, Now. They can not wait any longer.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** They have to achieve this Freedom right now, not by using violence, but by using peaceful measures.

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -** They can not achieve this freedom without the help of white Americans. That black and white people are tied to their destiny together.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** They will not stop fighting until they have completely achieved racial equality.

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


 * OUR WORDS -** His dream is that African Americans had racial equality.

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//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.** The KKK planted a time bomb outside of the 16th Street baptist church. Four girls who were in the basement preparing for the service were killed instantly when the bomb went off. They never knew about the bomb. Twenty other people were killed in the bomb blast. Even though inoccent people were now targets, the Civil Rights movement did not slow down.

<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?** Because he lifted them from the burden of having to live with being a racist type of people. And for allowing future generations to be able to welcome all races of people, and not discriminate them on their skin color or race.


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, because without him, the civil rights movement would not be as strong. Of course they had other leaders, but none were as powerful and motivational as King. The movement needed King to lead it.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** Yes he would because he supported African American rights. He did not support gay rights because of his Baptist's views.

<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] ||