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


 * OUR WORDS -** Martin Luther King is telling this group about how Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation making African Americans free but still 100 years later they still aren't free and still find the "exile in his own land."

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


 * OUR WORDS -** Martin Luther King Jr. quotes from the Declaration of Independence that all people "have unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." He says that the government has been promising things that they haven't been giving all that they promised for.

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

**OUR WORDS -** Martin Luther King is saying that action needs to be taken NOW!

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


 * OUR WORDS -** Martin Luther King is saying that they should be peaceful when trying to get equality. We should meet physical force with "soul force."

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -** They must keep going forward and don't stop and that they should work together with the whites. "Their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom."

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


 * OUR WORDS -** We will never be satisfied until African Americans are equal with whites. "No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

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


 * OUR WORDS -** Martin Luther King is saying that all African Americans should be equal. "I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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//And this will be the day ... we are free at last!//
 * OUR WORDS -** Martin Luther King is saying that America must let freedom ring everywhere and that African Americans and whites should join hands and be friends instead of enemies.

<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.** Right after the march, a bomb exploded on 16th street church killing 4 little girls. This plan was planned by the Ku Klux Klan to just kill any innocence people in that church. Although people were extremely depressed after this terrible incident, many people did not give up. They continued to fight until they achieved equality.

<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?** Whites should owe King the greatest debt that Martin Luther King liberated them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race. This means that it was Martin Luther King who made whites to realize that Americans cannot judge people just because of their race or by the color of their skin but by their content of their character.

** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not? ** King would not be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line because he wanted to express his dream about what he thought whites and African Americans should be. Both races should be equal and not segregated. His line his so famous that mostly everyone knows about than most things. That quote really showcases what King wanted to achieve in just a simple quote.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?** King was "the right man at the right time because his victory was so complete that even though those outrages took place within the living memory of the baby boomers, they seem like ancient history. King was able to achieve close to equality with nonviolence similar to Muhammad Gandhi.

<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.

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WEBSITES: [|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]