The reason for “I Have a Dream” massive impact is due to the tense social mood of the time and that it reflects the conditions of the time, giving black activists a vision for the future. It struck directly into the hearts of blacks across America, made whites ashamed of their actions and willing to have a new start. This most certainly made society shake to its roots. He first started off with a logical appeal when he said “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation” (American Rhetoric 1st ¶). Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free all slaves. Which was something huge in the United States that was the start of all African Americans freedom. Relief was spread all through out the African Americans. This stood out because all men and women are created equal. King brought back how African Americans started to slowly recover from what all has happened to them by adding about the Emancipation Proclamation but in reality they were still dealing with the same things years
The reason for “I Have a Dream” massive impact is due to the tense social mood of the time and that it reflects the conditions of the time, giving black activists a vision for the future. It struck directly into the hearts of blacks across America, made whites ashamed of their actions and willing to have a new start. This most certainly made society shake to its roots. He first started off with a logical appeal when he said “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation” (American Rhetoric 1st ¶). Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to free all slaves. Which was something huge in the United States that was the start of all African Americans freedom. Relief was spread all through out the African Americans. This stood out because all men and women are created equal. King brought back how African Americans started to slowly recover from what all has happened to them by adding about the Emancipation Proclamation but in reality they were still dealing with the same things years