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Free At Last: The Language of Dr. King's Dream Teacher Manual
Free At Last The Language of Dr King's Dream Teacher Manual Author:Michael Clay Thompson The third in the Self-Evident Truth Series, Michael Clay Thompson continues his study of the language used in important statements of equality in American history. This examination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's I have a Dream speech, looks at the poetry, grammar and vocabulary of the most important modern statement of America's commitment to the... more » equality of its citizens.
Free at Last examines how powerful emotion is built up by repeated ideas and words; how King's vision of the future and great call to freedom was achieved by carefully chosen vocabulary and word pictures conjured by metaphor; by the poetics of meter, alliteration and assonance, and by other carefully selected grammatical devices.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place on August 28 1963. Its purpose was to draw attention to the injustice of segregation and to push for jobs and economic equality. The statue of Lincoln was chosen as the backdrop for the speeches and Dr King began with the words that echoed the beginning of the Gettysburg Address : "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation? but one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free."« less