Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, played a giant part in the fight for equal rights for colored people. From marches to speeches and much more. He was jailed multiple times for his peaceful, but highly effective actions. He knew how to get his points across. Dr. King created a speech titled “I Have a Dream”, and a letter he wrote while sitting in the Birmingham Jail titled, “The Letter From Birmingham Jail”. Though both of these items had the same message, the item that got the point across the best was the “I Have a Dream” speech, which uses charged language”. Dr.King gave his speech to a huge crowd at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. He used a lot of charged language or “pathos” to get his points across better. Saying things such as “...We will be able to speed up that day when all of god’s children, black men and white men,Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing the words of the Negro spiritual: Free at last!Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last(King,264)”. “The
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Once again, he believed the colored race was treated unfairly. King explains that there are laws to prevent it, but nobody listens to them. Dr. King even brings up the Emancipation Proclamation to prove this point in his speech,”Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation(King,261)” The Emancipation Proclamation was a document that freed 3.1 million out of 4 million in the U.S. during the civil war. Dr. King then says, “But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.(King,261)” As you can see, King was stating that rather than being physically chained as slaves, the colored people were still being segregated and discriminated
Once again, he believed the colored race was treated unfairly. King explains that there are laws to prevent it, but nobody listens to them. Dr. King even brings up the Emancipation Proclamation to prove this point in his speech,”Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation(King,261)” The Emancipation Proclamation was a document that freed 3.1 million out of 4 million in the U.S. during the civil war. Dr. King then says, “But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.(King,261)” As you can see, King was stating that rather than being physically chained as slaves, the colored people were still being segregated and discriminated