I Have A Dream
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I have a dream
After a lengthy march and an afternoon that contained speeches about unemployment, and social and racial injustice, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. finally took the podium in front of Lincoln Memorial in order to address the approximately 250,000 people gathered.
With a stately and authoritative start, he brought up the unfortunate situation of relations being racial despite the fact that it's been over one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation and what it meant to be black in America in 1963. He avoided discussing specific laws before Congress or the demands of the protesters, in contrast to many of the speakers who had come before him earlier in the day. Rather, he put the social liberties battle with regards to Sacred writing's immortal vistas and the bigger verifiable scene, which incorporates time past, present, and future.
Mahalia Jackson, who had earlier that day given a moving performance of the spiritual "I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned," interrupted Dr. King midway through his prepared statement. She called out to him from the speakers' stage, "Tell 'em about the 'Dream,' Martin, tell 'em about the 'Dream'!" She was talking about a riff he had given on previous occasions, so Dr. King put the text of his comments away and sent off into an astonishing act of spontaneity on the subject of dreams that would proceed to become quite possibly of the most well known refrain ever.
Dr. King made history with his improvised riff, moving from prose to poetry and from the stage to the pulpit. As he transitioned from a dismal appraisal of the social inequalities that exist today to a brilliant vision of hope — of what America may be — his voice displayed several emotions. "I dream," he said, "that my children will grow up in a place where they will be judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin." Today, I dreamed!"
Many of the people in the throng that Wednesday afternoon, fifty years ago, had traveled the nation by bus and train. The Red Cross was handing out ice cubes to help beat the intense August heat, and many people were dressed up for the protests. John Lewis, the civil rights leader, would later remark that "people then dressed up when they went out for a protest." However, Dr. King electrified everyone, even if they were exhausted after...