SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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The White House
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The Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
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Birmingham, Alabama
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Montgomery, Alabama
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Detailed explanation-1: -Martin Luther King I Have a Dream Speech-American Rhetoric. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
Detailed explanation-2: -On August 28, 1963, some 100 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves, a young man named Martin Luther King climbed the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to describe his vision of America.
Detailed explanation-3: -On this location in 1963, Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. In the speech, he evoked the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the emancipation of the slaves, and the “shameful condition” of segregation in America 100 years after the American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-4: -Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Dream” speech was a call for equality. It identified the faults of America and what measures were needed to make it a better place. A central theme throughout the speech was the importance of everyone being treated equally.
Detailed explanation-5: -This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.