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Martin Luther King Jr ’ s “ I Have a Dream ” speech

Martin Luther King Jr ’ s “ I Have a Dream ” speech. Given at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. during the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom’ on August 28, 1963. The words “I have a dream” were ad-libbed on the day of the speech

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Martin Luther King Jr ’ s “ I Have a Dream ” speech

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  1. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech • Given at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. during the ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom’ on August 28, 1963

  2. The words “I have a dream” were ad-libbed on the day of the speech • It lasts about 17 minutes and was written just hours before King was expected to speak • Dr. King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964

  3. Emancipation Proclamation January 1st, 1863 • Executive order (not a law) signed by President Lincoln that freed slaves in the rebellious southern states (the Confederacy) • Made ending slavery a specific goal of the Civil War

  4. Gettysburg Address, November 1863 One of the greatest speeches in American history, delivered by President Lincoln during the Civil War honoring the soldiers who had died during the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863). “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure...”

  5. 13th Amendment • Ratified December 1865 • The 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States • “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the Unites States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

  6. 14th Amendment • Ratified July 1868 • “Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States” • Including all former slaves recently freed • Forbids states from denying any person life, liberty, or property without due process of law

  7. 15th Amendment • The 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote • Declaring “right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude” • Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of voting rights would not be recognized for nearly a century after • It took passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before the majority of African Americans in the South could successfully register to vote in local, state, and national elections

  8. Plessy vs. Ferguson • Supreme Court Decision 1896 • Establish the public policy of racial segregation, or “Separate but Equal” • Brown vs Board of Education overturned it in 1954, but many states ignored the ruling and continued to enforce segregation

  9. Jim Crow Laws Local and State laws that enforced segregation in public areas and the service industry (schools, parks, libraries, neighborhoods, restaurants, hotels, movie theaters, shopping malls, ect)

  10. MLK 'I have a dream"

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