Paper IV
Born the son of a Baptist preacher, Martin Luther King Jr. was a well respected advocate, a gifted orator and a highly persuasive writer. In the summer of 1963, Blacks joined together in a march, which ended at the front of the Lincoln memorial steps, where there, a 34 year old King, gave his speech called “I have a dream.” Using a number of persuasion and literary tools in his speech, King contributed the acknowledgement that America, as a nation, has failed its sacred obligation to unbind the blacks from; oppression, discrimination and poverty, and yet though slavery was no longer in existence, they were still in-slaved through segregation and were never given the privilege from prospering, in the great land of opportunity.
King uses a number of literary tools in his speech to urge the listeners to stand up and take charge of the situation at hand. By stating Lincoln’s demands of freeing all slaves, King uses the facts from the signing of the Emancipation......
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