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"I Have a Dream"
Brian Reckeweg
COMM/110



Dream
The "I Have a Dream" speech by Dr. Martian Luther King Jr. was delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. This speech is one of the most powerful and well known speeches in the world. I will analyze this speech. In doing so I will not only talk about the importance of the speech, but also the mechanics behind the speech, and why the speech still lives in infamy today.
I believe the primary focus of the speech was to inform. Inform who? I say to inform the government that over 100 years ago a promise was made by America that all men would be treated as equal. Yet, still in 1963 the African American community was scourged with racism, and discrimination. I think the secondary purpose of the speech was to advocate an issue. The speech was delivered in a way as to unite all races of people to rise up against the injustice against our own American brothers and sisters.
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