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The future of race relations in the United States of America (with particular reference to the South)

Dr Martin Luther King

Washington DC

August 28 1963

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Status Summary

1863 Emancipation proclamation signed

• This gave hope to millions

1963 African Americans still not free

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Progress

America has given African Americans a blank check

We have come to cash this check

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Attention Areas

Victims of police brutality

Signs saying ‘Whites only’

African Americans cannot vote in Mississippi

In New York nothing to vote for

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I have a dream

All rise up and live out creed: all men are equal

In Georgia sons of slaves and sons of slave owners will sit down together

Mississippi transformed to oasis of freedom

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Dream (contd)

Children will not be judged by colour of skin but by their character

In Alabama black boys and girls will join hands with white boys and girls

Every hill & mountain made low, rough places made plain, crooked places made straight

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Let freedom ring from:

The Rockies

Slopes of California

Stone Mtn, Georgia

Lookout Mtn, Tennessee

Every hill in Mississippi

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All of the following will be free

Black

White

Jews

Gentiles

Protestant

Catholic

We didn’t have the insensitivity to add clipart to this list, but guess you’ve got the idea by now…..

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Any questions?