Martin Luther King's Speech
I have a dream that one day my four little children will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
His most famous speech was delivered in Washington DC on August the 28, 1963.
Presently there are more than 730 U.S. cities that have streets named after King.
Martin was born in Atlanta, which is the capitol and one of the most populated cities in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Martin Luther King was killed by a sniper 's bullet on April 4th, 1968. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was fatally shot in the neck. King was immediately taken to the hospital but was pronounced dead at 7:05 pm.
Martin Luther King Martin …show more content…
(1963)[20]
Among the most quoted lines of the speech, include "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!".[21]
According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. "Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations."[22]
The ideas in the speech reflect King 's social experiences of the mistreatment of blacks. The speech draws upon appeals to America 's myths as a nation founded to provide freedom and justice to all people, and then reinforces and transcends those secular mythologies by placing them within a spiritual context by arguing that racial justice is also in accord with God 's will. Thus, the rhetoric of the speech provides redemption to America for its racial sins.[23] King describes the promises made by America as a "promissory note" on which America has defaulted. He says that "America has given the Negro people a bad check", but that "we 've come to cash this check" by marching in Washington, …show more content…
Schlesinger, Jr., published posthumously in 2007, suggest that President Kennedy was concerned that if the march failed to attract large numbers of demonstrators, it might undermine his civil rights efforts.
In the wake of the speech and march, King was named Man of the Year by TIME magazine for 1963, and in 1964, he was the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[42] The full speech did not appear in writing until August 1983, some 15 years after King 's death, when a transcript was published in the Washington Post.[3]
In 2002, the Library of Congress honored the speech by adding it to the United States National Recording Registry.[43]
In 2003, the National Park Service dedicated an inscribed marble pedestal to commemorate the location of King 's speech at the Lincoln Memorial.[44]
On August 26, 2013 UK 's BBC Radio 4 broadcast "God 's Trombone" in which Gary Younge looked behind the scenes of the speech and explored "what made it both timely and
His most famous speech was delivered in Washington DC on August the 28, 1963.
Presently there are more than 730 U.S. cities that have streets named after King.
Martin was born in Atlanta, which is the capitol and one of the most populated cities in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Martin Luther King was killed by a sniper 's bullet on April 4th, 1968. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was fatally shot in the neck. King was immediately taken to the hospital but was pronounced dead at 7:05 pm.
Martin Luther King Martin …show more content…
(1963)[20]
Among the most quoted lines of the speech, include "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!".[21]
According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. "Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations."[22]
The ideas in the speech reflect King 's social experiences of the mistreatment of blacks. The speech draws upon appeals to America 's myths as a nation founded to provide freedom and justice to all people, and then reinforces and transcends those secular mythologies by placing them within a spiritual context by arguing that racial justice is also in accord with God 's will. Thus, the rhetoric of the speech provides redemption to America for its racial sins.[23] King describes the promises made by America as a "promissory note" on which America has defaulted. He says that "America has given the Negro people a bad check", but that "we 've come to cash this check" by marching in Washington, …show more content…
Schlesinger, Jr., published posthumously in 2007, suggest that President Kennedy was concerned that if the march failed to attract large numbers of demonstrators, it might undermine his civil rights efforts.
In the wake of the speech and march, King was named Man of the Year by TIME magazine for 1963, and in 1964, he was the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[42] The full speech did not appear in writing until August 1983, some 15 years after King 's death, when a transcript was published in the Washington Post.[3]
In 2002, the Library of Congress honored the speech by adding it to the United States National Recording Registry.[43]
In 2003, the National Park Service dedicated an inscribed marble pedestal to commemorate the location of King 's speech at the Lincoln Memorial.[44]
On August 26, 2013 UK 's BBC Radio 4 broadcast "God 's Trombone" in which Gary Younge looked behind the scenes of the speech and explored "what made it both timely and