"I Have a Dream" speech

I don't know much about the U.S. civil rights movement, but I do know that Dr.King's "I have a dream" speech had a great impact on it. This speech motivated a lot of african americans to fight for equal rights. Not just only african americans, but whites as well. Unfortunately not all white men believed in equal rights and a whole bunch of them discriminated black men. Dr. King's speech helped get rid of segregation. After he's speech things began to change a lot. Black men could then vote just like white men did. Even though it took a long time for all men to have equal rights now both black and white should be treated the same way.

In order to end racial discrimination Dr.king used several retorical appeals. He appealed to religion a lot in different ways. He used frases such as " and the glory of the lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together" or "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 in the words of the old negro spiritual: free at last! free at last! thank god almighty we are free at last". He aslo appealed to patriotism. He mentions things like the constitution and the delcaration of independence. He also mentions the emancipation proclamation. Well luckily Dr.king's dream did come true.