'But One Hundred Years Later The Negro Is Still Not Free'

I think that there are two themes representing this speech because how powerful the speech was. It represents peace and equality between blacks and whites so that blacks will be able to live in society as equals in merit, work as equal, get paid as equal. King speaks in front of the Lincoln Memorial one hundred years after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Though the proclamation legally freed the slaves King argues that "one hundred years later, the negro is still not free" because of racism and discrimination. Segragation, Jim Crow laws, fear, and violence have kept black amaericans from enjoying freedom and equality, and instead "the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land." America's persistence in this inequality based on race is keeping the country from truly being great.
King's central claim is that "But one hundred years later the negro is still not free" which is stated on line ten of his speech. He then supports his claim by going on and stating " One hundred years later the life of negro is still badly crippled by the manacles of segragation and the chains of discrimination" lines twelve through thirteen of his speech. He mentioned about police violence or brutality among the Negros, the signboards that say ‘for whites only’, the no right to vote policy, and all injustices that African Americans experienced. This speech encouraged the black community to take social and militant action to fight for their rights during the Jim Crow Era in 1960s. He ends his speech with his famous words "i have a dream" he speaks a new vision for America in which the people of his race will be afforded equal oppritunities and that "all men are created