I Have A Dream
by: Martin Luther King
Summary
Why is it that until today, there is discrimination against the negro or the black Americans?
What is the Emancipation Declaration?
How did America claim itself to be the land of opportunity when not all Americans are granted opportunities? (jobs, education, funds, etc.)
How did this speech affect the minds of the oppressed?
Who signed the Emancipation Declaration?
Outline:
11th-13th: Negros should make a pledge that they should have a bloodless fight
14th-19th: States the unsatisfactions of the Negros
8th-10th: Raised awareness and stated the things that should be done
20th: the situations of the other Negros
7th: Negros sees uncertainty with the system of the bank of justice
21th: About the actions that the Negros should be doing
6th: States the unfair situation of the Negros
22nd-29th: States the dreams or the things that the Negros should be experiencing
4th&5th: Declaration of Independence
30th-32nd: Faith and hopes of the Negros
3rd: The situation of the Negros wherein they were treated as slaves.
33rd-35th: States that Freedom should be felt by all
2nd: Emancipation Declaration
36th: States the possible thing that could happen if the freedom and equality is present in the society
1st : Introduction of what the text is about.
Annotations:
Manacles of Segregation
"Invigorating Autumn of Freedom and Equality"
"Five score years ago, a great American signed the Emancipation Declaration."
"Marvelous new Militancy inextricably bound to freedom"
Emancipation Declaration
Beacon Light of Hope
Gradualism
"Sunlit path of Racial Justice, quicksand of Racial Injustice"
"This is our hope."
"Prodigious hilltops of new Hampshire."
"Storms of Persecution & Staggered by the Police Brutality"
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair."
"100 years later, Negros still isn't free. The life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the chains of discrimination."
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
King uses the concept of "Banks" and "Checks" in relation to his speech of equality towards the Negro.
Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" talks about the injustice and discrimination towards the Negros. Even though the Emancipation Declaration has been signed five years ago (in time the speech was presented), the Negros still continue to be looked down upon by the "white" Americans because of their ethnicity or of their past. King's "dream" in the title refers to the long-due acceptance of the white Americans towards the Negros. His great hope is that everyone will accept the Negros as equal and treat them as humane individuals as they are like everyone else.