MLK

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.//
 * OUR WORDS -** After all this time the African American's still aren't free

Excerpt 2 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 2] //In a sense ... the security of justice.//
 * OUR WORDS -** We deserve to be treated equal so we are now taking what's rightfully ours.

Excerpt 3 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 3] //We have also come ... Now is the time.//
 * OUR WORDS -** Now is the time to make us all equal.

Excerpt 4 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 4] //But there is something ... soul force.//
 * OUR WORDS -** We won't accomplish anything with violence. It's almost like cheating.

Excerpt 5 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 5] //The marvelous new militancy ... We cannot turn back.//
 * OUR WORDS -** We will do this with the help of whites because we are in a community together.

Excerpt 6 - [|I Have a Dream -- Excerpt 6] //There are those ... like a mighty stream."//
 * OUR WORDS -** We will not and can not stop until the police brutality is over.

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

Excerpt 8 - [|I Have a Dream - Excerpt 8] //And this will be the day ... we are free at last!// **OUR WORDS -**

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

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?** Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not?
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?**