Jamar’e Voisin 1st period - 1st period - 3rd period - 1
“I have a dream” is a beautiful inspirational speech by the late Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr was an influential black civil rights activist that helped get blacks the equality they wanted. He had a great legacy and a lot of speeches that made him one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement. But his most famous speech was “I have a dream” which he said in front of 250,000 people. The speech is about the need for equality and how nothing has really changed since the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The “I have a dream” speech was made on August 28, 1963, almost 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. In the speech he gets his point…show more content… In paragraph three of the speech he states “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free; one hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” (100 years later from the Emancipation Proclamation) This shows how even a hundred years later nothing really changed. And the use of the word Negro shows that there is still discrimination because white people wouldn’t call black people black as slaves, the would be a negro. Which is where the racist word came from: He is saying that even though the Emancipation Proclamation freed blacks and gave them rights. They still really don't have rights. Another piece of evidence for “I Have A Dream” is when Martin Luther King Jr says, “It is obvious today that America has defaulted on the promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check.” This statement here shows that America has not kept their promise to give the Negro people the rights they wanted, but instead blacks are still not treated and they are still like slaves having to live the way white people want. Martin Luther King Jr. made his speech to show the blacks have been robbed of their rights. Martin Luther King Jr.
