“I Have a Dream” In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his most famous speech, “I Have a Dream”, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. His dream was to make America realize that one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, “… the Negro is still not free” and continued to be shackled by segregation and discrimination. King utilized several examples of repetition, symbolic figures, and different literary of appeals to convey the fact that African Americans were condemned…
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