MLK's+Dream

I HAVE A DREAM! Cut and paste this information into a new page on your Unit 8 Online Notebook.(5/11/12)

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


 * OUR WORDS -Even after the Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, life for Negroes is still bad and that the people should be ashamed of what they have done 100 years later.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -Both black and white men should have the unalienable rights that were spoken of in the Declaration of Independence. There should be a security of justice. They were promised rights and freedom just as someone is promised a check, and they were there to cash it.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - Its the time to move forward, from segregation, to get freedom, and justice must be received now. NOW IS THE TIME.**

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


 * OUR WORDS -Leave behind the bitterness and hatred. Rise above the segregation and their physical force, and do this with soul force. You must leave the past behind and move forward onto the freedom.**

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

//The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - White freedoms is inextricably bond to black people. We must keep moving forward, and never look back.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We will not to be satisfied until we get our civil rights.**

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

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

**OUR WORDS - I have a dream, that the American dream will realize that everyone will live together in society with no problems.**

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

//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -Soon we will be free!**

AFTER

**If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.**

**A church on 16th street in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan while there were four young girls in the basement preparing for a service. They were all instantly killed, and 20 others were wounded. Though tragic, this would not stand in the way of 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?** **The author feels that whites owe him the greatest debt, //"for liberating them from the burden of America;c centuries-old hypocrisy about race."//**

 Read more: [|http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988163,00.html#ixzz1ufvPmNt9]

**Was King "the right man at the right time"?**

**Yes, King was "the right man at the right time because it is impossible to think of the movement unfolding as it did without him being the leader.**


 * Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? **


 * I do not think that King would be upset with the current use of this line because it is mostly used correctly in honoring his legacy ad what he believes in. I think he would be proud that people are still using quotes from him to keep his message alive. Although some of the uses of this quote may have been not what he would have endorsed, I think that he would still be proud that it is being used against //"racial preferences".// **