"I Have a Dream" Speech
An "I Have a Dream" Speech is a public speech that was delivered by Martin Luther King on August 28, 1963.
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- "Pericles' Funeral Oration" Speech (Pericles - Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE),
- Gettysburg Address Speech (Abraham Lincoln in 1863),
- "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech (Sojourner Truth in ~1827).
- See: Abraham Lincoln, March on Washington For Jobs And Freedom, Racism in The United States, American Civil Rights Movement.
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2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream Retrieved:2022-11-15.
- "I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister,[1] Martin Luther King Jr., during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement and among the most iconic speeches in American history.
Beginning with a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared millions of slaves free in 1863, [2] King said "one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free".[3] Toward the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme "I have a dream", prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" [4] In this part of the speech, which most excited the listeners and has now become its most famous, King described his dreams of freedom and equality arising from a land of slavery and hatred.[5]
Jon Meacham writes that, "With a single phrase, King joined Jefferson and Lincoln in the ranks of men who've shaped modern America". The speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century in a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. The speech has also been described as having "a strong claim to be the greatest in the English language of all time".
- "I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister,[1] Martin Luther King Jr., during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement and among the most iconic speeches in American history.
- ↑ Kakutani, Michiko (August 28, 2013). "The Lasting Power of Dr. King's Dream Speech". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
- ↑ Echols, James (2004), I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Future of Multicultural America.
- ↑ Alexandra Alvarez, "Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream': The Speech Event as Metaphor", Journal of Black Studies 18(3); .
- ↑ See Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–1963.
- ↑ X, Malcolm; Haley, Alex (1973). Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books. p. 281.