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.//

After 100 years, we are in a bad spot as African-Americans. We still do not have that freedom we were promised by Lincoln.
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Excerpt 2 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 2] //In a sense ... the security of justice.//

Colored men have been given a check and we are trying to check it. Govenment was bouncing a check and AA wanted to cash it.
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Excerpt 3 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 3] //We have also come ... Now is the time.//

We came here out of urgency. This needs to happen now. It can't be tomorrow. The time is now!
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Excerpt 4 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 4] //But there is something ... soul force.//

No violence
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Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5]

//The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.// We shall do this as one. One unified group we need to fight as. We cannot hate on other races that may help us.
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Excerpt 6 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 6] //There are those ... like a mighty stream."//

We are not going to be satisfied until everyone else is. Not on paper.
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Excerpt 7 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 7]

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

**OUR WORDS -** We hope that one day that everyone will be equal with no grudges. No hard feelings.

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!// On that day when everyone is equal. Shall everyone express it and enjoy it.
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AFTER

**If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.** A local church in Birmingham Alabama was bombed. That church was significant for the idea of Civil Rights and was a meeting place. The bombing was meant to kill anyone in it. It killed 4 girls who were prepping for mass.

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?** We owe MLK because w/o him we would not be the free country we are looked towads. We could have been turned out like the South Africa.

**Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes and no. Many would argue that he was not strong and was too soft. But he led an affective tactic with non-violence that led to the ideas of what we have today. SO in short, he was definitely the right man. **Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not?** King would definitely be upset. He would have never endorsed some uses of it. Opponents of action against segregation like Ward Connerly insist that if King were alive he would support them.