I Have A Dream Speech Outline

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I. Videos
a. Page 786 watch Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream Speech" and answer the following:
1. What is the PURPOSE of Dr. King's message? To say that all people are created equal and for this nation to be great we have to break down the racial barriers.
2. What seem to be the themes of his message? The demand for equality even though the slaves were freed 100 hundred years before they are still not treated equally and it is his dream that finally they will be free.
3. Compare it to the message you watched/will watch of Malcolm X (below).
Malcom X fights for inequality around the world while Martin Luther King Jr. fights for inequality within the US.

b. Page 791 watch the Malcolm X video and answer the following
1.
Page 786 read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from A Birmingham Jail, 1963" and answer questions 1-3 in detail.
1- He said a nonviolent protest is justified because there is injustice present. He responds by saying he is an extremist. He says all the men who have changed history were extremists for example Thomas Jefferson was an extremist by saying “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal”.
2- Because if injustice happens somewhere once it can be justified in a second incident somewhere else. As a christian he believes it is his moral obligation to stop injustice.
3- Through his eyes he sees that social injustices have been righted dating back to the revolution.
c. Page 788 read "Fannie Lou Hammer, Voting Rights in Mississippi, 1962-1964" and answer questions 1-3 in detail."
1- She was asked of anybody wanted to go down and register to vote, she wanted to encourage African Americans in Mississippi to register to vote.
2- They would beat them and order other African Americans to beat them to scare them into not registering.
3- They would speak to crowds talking about the injustices that happened at the jail to keep them from their constitutional

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