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READING ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING'S SPEECH : I HAVE A DREAM

ACTIVITY 1

Read the text and find the words with negative and positive meaning.

ACTIVITY 2

Match the sentences with the pictures they represent.

1 - We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakablehorrors of police brutality.

2 - We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of thecities.

3 - We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smallerghetto to a larger one.

4 -We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hoodand robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only."

5- We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negroin New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied,and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness

like a mighty stream."

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on alonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundredyears later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and findshimself an exile in his own land.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and theDeclaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every Americanwas to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men,would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

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Picture a Picture b Picture c

Picture d Picture e

ACTIVITY 3

Match each sentence according to the meaning:

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ACTIVITY 4

Locate the places in the speech on the map of the United States.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

a - I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of itscreed:

b -I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves

c -I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heatof injustice,

d - I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they willnot be judged

e - I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governorhaving his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" --

f - I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountainshall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be madestraight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

1 - "W e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

2 - and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

3 - sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

4 - by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

5 - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands withlittle white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

6 - and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealedand all flesh shall see it together."

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ACTIVITY 5

Find information about the following historical events. First, read theintroduction and then create a timeline with the basic data including the maincharacters of each historical event.

Historical events

1 - Right to vote.

2 March on Washington.

3 Sit ins.

4 Little Rock riots.

5 Jim Crow Laws.

6 Bus boycott.

7 Cassius Clay.

8 Freedom riders.

Black citizens of the southern United States in the 1950s faced dailydiscrimination and oppression. Most were unable to vote, were forced intothe lowest paid jobs, and even had to use separate public transport andschools to white people. Civil rights groups challenged this inequality throghlawsuits, marches, and non violent protests, determined to achieve fullcitizenship rights.