MLK's+Dream

I HAVE A DREAM August 28, 1963
 * It’s been called the greatest speech in history – period. The words that Martin Luther King Jr. exclaimed in the nation’s capital in August of 1963 still ring in the ears of Americans. But what exactly did he actually say? What was his dream? Listen to the excerpts from Dr. King’s speech and summarize and illustrate each on the Power Point file. **

Click on the [|Dream template.ppt] with your group, enter your first names, and be prepared to analyze the words of King. For each segment (8 total), you will be summarizing it in your own words and selecting images (clip art, not historic) to illustrated the main ideas of what King was conveying on that hot summer day.

Once you are done, you will be embedding your illustrated "Dream" speech into your online notebook on a new page. To do so, you have a few options ...
 * Upload the finished file to your Google docs account, save it, and then get the embed code using "Share" on the top right of the screen.
 * Upload the file to voicethread ([], and you will want to start an account), save it as a voicethread, make it "public" and embed it.
 * Use a PowerPoint to flash converter online, save the file as an .swf file, and upload it to your wiki.



Once you have finished uploading it, copy and paste the following exercises onto your "Dream" page and complete them using the resources provided.

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KING

** Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**] **. As you do, respond to the following questions **Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?** The author says that King released whites from racial hypocrisy that had gone on for centuries. The title that America had of being the leader of a "free world" was not true until after the Civil Rights Movement. Also, America can been in World War Two fighting for the rights of the Jews and other persecuted groups when they were oppressing African Americans at home.

Yes he was, even though this is a cliche. King was one of the major factors in the CRM. History would have been changed without him, and history changed because of him.
 * Was King "the right man at the right time"?**

**Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not?** I think that he would be upset because they are twisting his words. Those words had such powerful meaning, and to change them to your won benefit is extremely wrong. Also, it makes it seem like all the work that King did was in vain. It makes it seem as though his words mean nothing.

MEMORIALS

There are many memorials to King around the United States, and there will soon be a new one in Washington D.C.! Check out some of the links below, and look at the video of the new National Memorial.


 * || [|Washington, DC, **Martin Luther King** Jr. National **Memorial**]

[|The King Center]

[|**Martin Luther King** Jr National Historic Site]

[|Some King historical sites from Taft's travels] [|Some King historical video from Taft's travels] ||