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Nearly fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream’ speech, a clarion call for the end of racial discrimination in the United States. The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom also called for

He had a dream. In August 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. electrified America with his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, dramatically delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He stood as a proud black man, speaking of racial injustice and his dream of seeing American citizens come together as a united nation regardless of race and background. Today his speech is one of the most famous speeches in history. Although the speech was presented 54 years ago, it is still relevant today due to the racial discrimination that people have faced recently and are still facing today. Everyone is not treated fairly. African-Americans are treated especially poorly. The level of black youth poverty was higher in 2015 than it was in 1968. Another example of

On April 28, 1963 over 200,00 Americans gathered at the Washington monument to protest cruelty that was being spread among our country. On that day, one of the most famous speeches of all American history was delivered. From that speech, America experienced a change that has brought us to where we are today. In the famous, “I have a dream” speech proclaimed by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., many types of rhetoric was utilized to try and stop the racial inequality that was occurring within our country at the time.

On August 28th, 1963, over 250,000 people joined Dr. King march at the Lincoln Memorial to hear his speech, “I Have a Dream” Powerful words being heard and documented as a historical event for civil rights. He introduces his speech as the greatest demonstration for freedom in all the United States of America. Dr. King opens with, “The negro still is not free, one-hundred years later the life of the negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimation.” Dr. King followed the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. Believing that non-violent protesting was the ultimate weapon against racism.

On August 28, 1963 more than 250,000 civil-rights supporters attended the March on Washington. Addressing the protesters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Profoundly, he proclaimed for a free nation of equality where all race would join together in the effort to achieve common ground. King stated his yearning for all colors to unite and be judged by character, not by race. African Americans would not be satisfied until their desire for freedom from persecution, bitterness, and hatred prevailed. Not only were the points in his speech powerful, but also the delivery he gave was so persuading and real

On August 28th 1963, Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr. made his infamous “I Have a Dream” speech. In the speech, King confronts the mistreatment of the African American community and the lack of free will they contain in society. Throughout the mid-1900s, the Civil Rights Movement took place, influenced by centuries of cruelty towards the African Americans.. The most influential speech in the modern era was said in front of thousands of Civil Rights activists who all shared a common goal; to fight for the respect and to be treated as equals within the United States.

The “I Have A Dream” speech given by Martin Luther King captivated the hearts of individuals supporting the Civil Rights cause. His solutions and ideas were implemented widely and had a huge impact on rights among the White and Black America. In 1950 King, and the NAACP assisted in the “Brown v. Board of Education,” in Topeka, Kansas, which led to the acceptance of Black Americans in all White public schools (PBS, 2001). The thousands of marches and protests he led among the United States proved that one man can indeed make a difference.

On August 28, 1963 there was about 250,000 people who gathered in Washington D.C. to rally against political and social injustices African-Americans face at this time. This rally was meant to not only pressure congress into adopting civil rights legislation, but to also shed awareness to the continuing injustice even after the passing of the Emancipation Declaration . On its 53rd anniversary the march is remembered for the final speech, Martin Luther King Jr's, “I have a Dream.”

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” (Dr. King, Martin “I Have a Dream” Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. 28 August 1963). It has been fifty-one years since Dr. Martin Luther King J.R. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. It is evident that human beings who are considered to be African- American have made several outstanding achievements since the times of segregation; they have obtained the same suffrage rights, the same job opportunities, and many more privileges that were previously denied to them by their Caucasian counterparts. Though the people of African- American decent have come a long way

In 1963 many events occurred that had a profound effect on the decade and the future of our country. First, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr a major civil rights leader, realized that with Kennedy as President and an unsympathetic congress, the chances of getting a civil rights bill passed into law were doomed. He decided in the summer of 1963, with the help of Urban league leaders and A. Philip Randolph‘s labor union, to publicize a march on Washington DC for freedom. Over 300,000 mostly black Americans came to the nation’s capital to make the world aware of the need for new civil rights laws to ensure that not only blacks, but all Americans would have equal political, social, and economic opportunities to succeed. This is where Rev. King gave the most famous of all civil rights speeches known as The “I Have a Dream” speech. That speech and the large turnout did much to make the nation aware that a change in the law was inevitable.

During a time of segregation and oppression of Americans of color, Martin Luther King sought the true promise of a united tomorrow. Surely all people are created equal and deserving of happiness. In the hope that a bridge of brotherhood could be built amid the turmoil of a divided America, Martin Luther King through his memorable speech, “I Have a Dream,” paved the way to freedom, to equality, and to justice for all Americans. Martin Luther King carved a path to freedom despite unrelenting prejudice.

The “I Have a Dream” speech had an intended consequence of opening the minds of citizens of the United States to bring about equal treatment for the African American people. Fifty-three years post the “I have a Dream” speech, as we look at the state of our country despite the injustices that African Americans still suffer there has been progress. In comparison to 1963 the progress that has occurred since then such as African Americans right to vote, marry interracially and to date be president of the United States of America are an indicators that Dr. King’s dream has and still is coming to pass. It is unclear who in the audience during that speech were impacted by Dr. King’s words that day or what changes they made in their individual lives, however history has verified the improved rights of African American. We cannot say these change were not due to Dr. Kings ideas presented that day at the Lincoln memorial (Kakutani). We also know that Dr. King’s reputation grew even more popular and accredited which was also the intended impact of this

On August 28, 1963, civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington. This was a speech written for all of the civil rights activists who supported equality between black and white people, telling them to keep on fighting and that one day all will be considered equal. The speech starts off with mentioning the Emancipation Proclamation, what essentially freed all slaves in the U.S.A. The thing is, in the time that this speech was written black folks were not yet truly free. There was still tons of segregation and discrimination, and this speech makes the audience well aware of that and how they have to keep working in order to achieve true freedom for all black people in

During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s a black man by the name Martin Luther King Jr. help with the gradual advancement of Colored People to remove them from the second class of society, and to be treated as equals among their white peers. On August 28th 1963, a speech titled “I Have a Dream” written by Martin Luther King Jr was preached at the Lincoln Memorial, in commemoration of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln had passed a hundred years earlier freeing the black slaves. During this speech King effectively got his point across to thousands of Americans, and lit a spark of hope to all African Americans, all with his moving words and rhetorical devices used in his speech.

The mid 1900s was a time of segregation between African-Americans and Caucasian people within America. Though many were ok with the idea of living segregated due to race, others belittled the idea of a “separate but equal” lifestyle in America. Because African-Americans are the minorities in society, and therefore felt the effects of segregation the most. However, many of the African-American population as well as a select few of Caucasians wanted to end segregation within the “United” States forever. One African-American in particular, named Martin Luther King Jr., delivered a speech to the public August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. In his speech “I Have a Dream”, Martin Luther King Jr. explains