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“I Have A Dream” Essay, Research Paper

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Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream,” 28 August 1963

Occasion: The keynote speech at the 1963 March on Washington for

Jobs and Freedom, King gave the address from the steps of the

Lincoln Memorial to about 250,000 people assembled before him. The

speech was also broadcast on TV and published in newspapers. Since

1963, King’s “I Have a Dream” speech has become the most famous

public address of 20th century America. The immediate effect of the

speech also shaped American history. Julian Bond, a fellow

participant in the civil rights movement and student of King, would

write, “King’s dramatic 1963 ‘I Have a Dream’ speech before the

Lincoln Memorial cemented his place as first among equals in civil

rights leadership; from this first televised mass meeting, an American

audience saw and heard the unedited oratory of America’s finest

preacher, and for the first time, a mass white audience heard the

undeniable justice of black demands” (Seattle Times, 4 April 1993).

“I Have a Dream”

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the

greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we

stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree

came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had

been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous

daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

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