Apparently Dr. Kings speech was very effective in ending racial descrimination because a while after his speech the U.S. made a Civil Rights Act which promised not to allow segregation. Although it did take a while, and some states did not cooperate with the new laws, if it werent for Dr. King and his brave acts perhaps there would still be racial discrimination.
Dr. King used several rhetorical appeals in order to accomplish his goals and dreams. He references several times to having hope and faith and that by still yearning and trying to change and to have freedom it could be accomplished. Dr. King also appeals to emotion by talking about dreams. He mentions dreams often and how he dreams of one day seeing little black boys and girls hold hands and be united. He also appeals to freedom, he mentions how freedom shall ring from one side of the country to the other, from the west coast to the east coast.
Using these various appeals Dr. King helped people have hope, and helped better our nation into becoming equal, fair, more united and free. Dr. Kings speech was very effective and if it was not for his strong ambitious beliefs and his brave actions to better our country who knows what would be of our nation today.
Jullisa! This was a good post to read. As we go through this exercise some more all of you guys will sound like emerging scholars! You made a strong argument, though in order to make your response to question items like this DBQ you should mention the name of the document/speech you're talking about ("I Have a Dream" speech). The more specific you get in your responses the more points you will earn. One last tidbit for future reference: it's not "a Civil Rights Act", call it "the 1964 Civil Rights Act" so that you can avoid ambiguity in the future. it's very important that you point out that Dr. King inspired people to have hope - more than anything, as you point out, it was hope that allowed people to work as hard as they did to pass the Civil Rights Act and later the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Excellent work Jullisa!
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