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= I have a dream =

[[File:Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the Civil Rights Marc.jpg|thumb|(Martin Luther King Jr. Above while delivering his speech “I have a dream”)

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Freedom is the most significant part of living. It’s the thing that gives us the right to do what we want. In this modern day and time, freedom and equality is still not truly achieved. The same can be said between the colored and white Americans. That is why many individuals want to fight in order to gain freedom, one great example of this was Martin Luther King Jr.

Background
Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest. He was the driving force behind watershed events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the 1963 March on Washington, which helped bring about such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday since 1986.

Influences
King came from a comfortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern Black ministry: both his father and maternal grandfather were Baptist preachers. He never forgot the time when, at about age six, one of his white playmates announced that his parents would no longer allow him to play with King, because the children were now attending segregated schools.

Before beginning college, however, King spent the summer on a tobacco farm in Connecticut; it was his first extended stay away from home and his first substantial experience of race relations outside the segregated South. He was shocked by how peacefully the races mixed in the North. “Negroes and whites go [to] the same church,” he noted in a letter to his parents. “I never [thought] that a person of my race could eat anywhere.” This summer experience in the North only deepened King’s growing hatred of racial segregation.

At Morehouse, King favoured studies in medicine and law, but these were eclipsed in his senior year by a decision to enter the ministry, as his father had urged. King’s mentor at Morehouse was the college president, Benjamin Mays, a social gospel activist whose rich oratory and progressive ideas had left an indelible imprint on King’s father. Committed to fighting racial inequality, Mays accused the African American community of complacency in the face of oppression, and he prodded the Black church into social action by criticizing its emphasis on the hereafter instead of the here and now; it was a call to service that was not lost on the teenage King. He graduated from Morehouse in 1948.

As the leader of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. traversed the country in his quest for freedom. His involvement in the movement began during the bus boycotts of 1955.

Speech
In 1963, Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—a monument to the president who a century earlier had brought down the institution of slavery in the United States— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech about racism entitled “I Have a Dream”. He shared his vision of a future in which “this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” King wants to pursue equality among black and white Americans. He wants to give freedom to his fellow colored Americans, a thing that they never truly experienced even after the signing of emancipation proclamation. He added “This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

The speech and march cemented King’s reputation at home and abroad; later that year he was named “Man of the Year” by TIME magazine and in 1964 became, at the time, the youngest person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Relevant works
Many people have been inspired by the speech "I have a dream" that made them create songs and paintings that are based on it.

Songs:


 * Queen - One vision
 * DariaMusic - I Have a dream

Artworks: (only links)

https://www.grinnell.edu/campus-life/arts-culture/museum/educational-resources/i-have-dream-paintings-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-kadir-nelson

http://adesina.com/causes/martin-luther-king-jr-tribute-i-have-a-dream/

Reference links
https://en.wikipedia.org

https://kr.usembassy.gov/education-culture/infopedia-usa/living-documents-american-history-democracy/martin-luther-king-jr-dream-speech-1963/#:~:text=On%20August%2028%2C%201963%2C%20some,describe%20his%20vision%20of%20America.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Luther-King-Jr

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_Happiness

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-song-freddie-mercury-wrote-inspired-by-the-i-have-a-dream-speech.html/

https://www.ushistory.org/us/54f.asp#:~:text=As%20the%20leader%20of%20the,an%20assassin's%20bullet%20in%201968.

MADE BY: Caroline Apaan and John Keith Bunag :))