I+Have+A+Dream

I HAVE A DREAM! 
 * Cut and paste this information into a new page on your Unit 8 Online ISN. **

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


 * OUR WORDS - African Americans are still being treated unfairly and discriminated against. Also, he is linking things to Lincoln, i.e "five score years ago....".**

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


 * OUR WORDS - He quotes from the Declaration of Independence, i.e "...would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..." Also, he is saying African Americans have been "given a bad check" and they are not getting everything that they have rights for.**

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

**OUR WORDS - The time for change is now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We must get our rightful needs and places in society peacefully. There should be no violence or hate involved.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - Since we have gotten this far, we cannot turn back and we must keep going forward. The only way we can keep moving forward is by working with whites.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We cannot be completely satisfied until we have all our rights and are treated as complete equals.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - MLK is saying that he has a dream where everyone is equal. It won't matter what color skin you have or what race you are, everyone will be equal.**

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(194,15,15); font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">Excerpt 8 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 8]<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - One day, hopefully one soon, everyone will be equal, no matter what.**

<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 church was bombed by the Klu Klux Klan.

<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?** They owe him the greatest debt for " liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race."


 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, because he had the drive and will power to succeed.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? I think that he might be upset. I think that he was a humble man and would not have wanted all of that attention. **