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 the Emancipation Proclamation "freed" the slaves but I'm standing here 100 years later not free.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -We came here for justice and we have not been given it yet, which they signed a promise for all men.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -This has to happen now, now is the time.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -Our fight against segregation should be peaceful.**

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

//The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -We have to work together, we cannot do this alone.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -We will not be satisfied until we are treated equally.**

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

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

**OUR WORDS -My dream is to make everything equal one day.**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - Let this be the day that freedom will come about all of us.**

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?** For all King did to free blacks from the yoke of segregation, whites may owe him the greatest debt, for liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race. It is only because of King and the movement that he led that the U.S. can claim to be the leader of the "free world" without inviting smirks of disdain and disbelief.  **Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes because the movement would have gotten very violent without a peaceful leader.

No because other people are trying to achieve his goal and dream.
 * Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? **