I+Have+a+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 - Even one century after Lincoln's heroic efforts, African-Americans are still unequal politically and economically.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - He compared his own movement to the inalienable rights stated in the Declaration of Independence. Also, he compares the failed promise to a bad check, but he believes that America has the power to right this wrong.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - There has been enough racism. This ends now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - To win freedom, we must show that we are, indeed equal, and must prove this through nonviolent means.**

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

//The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We must not hate the white man, for he is our brother, and is needed on the road to freedom.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We will not have defeated racism so long as one black man in one state remains oppressed.**

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

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

**OUR WORDS - King believes that America will rise up to its promise that all men are created equal, and this change will take root everywhere.**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - All of us will stand together, and must stand together in freedom if America is to remain a great nation.**

AFTER

**If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.** 16th Street Church was destroyed by the KKK in bombingham. Four girls inside the church were killed, and twenty were wounded. These deaths were immortalized in the Civil Rights movement.

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?** He freed the whites from hypocrisy so that Soviet propaganda would have a less easy target.

**Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, according to the author, King's profession as a preacher put him in ideal spot to lead the movement with a thumb on the pulse, and his natural will and charisma did the rest.

Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? The current use of his line to fight Affirmative Action would have horrified King because.... because.... it's a campaign against racial preference, and King wouldn't like that one bit??? This is crazy stuff, I don't understand. EDIT: King would be upset with the line, according to the author, because it is used to imply a colorblind nation, where race is neither help nor hinderance. However, what King would REALLY be in line with is a plan to raise up some people based on the color of their skin because their ancestors had been discriminated against.