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I HAVE A DREAM! 

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


 * OUR WORDS - One hundred years ago African Americans were free but they never really got freedom. They thought that they freed African Americans, but they really only freed their bodies and not their souls.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - The Declaration gave everyone freedom but some of the white americans have not honored this. The US promised freedom and the unalienable rights. This promise was not kept and African Americans have to deal with not being treated as equal.**

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

**OUR WORDS - We have to get our equality now. We need our justice and rights right now.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We must get our freedom peacefully and with no violence. Some people are starting to get the idea that we have to fight back. He tells the people we must not fight back we need no violence and civil disobedience.**

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS - We need to keep going in this fight. We need to work with whites and we can't do this alone. We can't back out of this fight now and need to continue fighting for our rights.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - We are not happy with what we have now. We will keep fighting until we achieve equal rights. We will be satisfied when we can not just get restaurants and not just get buses, we will be satisfied when we can vote and have a reason to vote. We will be satisfied when we are completely equal.**

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


 * OUR WORDS - Speaking his dreams for equality for everyone. He relates to the state of Mississippi and says it's the state that is full of inequality and he hopes it will soon be full of freedom and justice.**

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS - For America to be a great nation, freedom must be present everywhere in the United States. We must make sure that everyone achieves their dream of freedom, no matter where they live.**

<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.**

<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?**__
 * For liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race.**

Yes King was the right man at the right time. At the time African Americans could not check into hotels, could not eat at lunch counters, could not own houses were they wanted to, and kids were getting beaten up just for saying they wanted to go to school with white kids. King came at the right time to start changing all of this and start leading to equality. The movement that King led swept all that away. Its victory was very complete.**
 * __Was King "the right man at the right time"?__

** __Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not?__ King would be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line because his famous quote is now much overused. For example, it is used as a slogan for affirmative action. King would not be for affirmative action because affirmative action is when you take someone's race, gender or ethnicity into account when choosing a person for something. King wanted everyone to be treated the same and have the same chances, regardless of their race, gender or ethnicity. **

<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] ||