MLK's+Dream

THE MARCH

** Read the [|last paragraph from ABC-CLIO]and the second paragraph from [|CORE's discussion of the March] to answer the question below: **

**What was the impact of the March on Washington?** -It showed the government that they had to be quickly active in the fast growing civil rights movement. Passage to civil rights movement. ** AFTER **

**If we didn't get to it in class, watch [|16th Street] to see what happened right after the March.**

In Birmingham Alabama, a Baptist church that played a big role in civil rights was bombed. It was not trying to hurt one person but anyone who happened to be inside. four young girls died in the explosion. KING

** Read the essay from [|**TIME 100 - Martin Luther King**] **. As you do, respond to the following questions:

**Why does the author feel that whites owe King the greatest debt?** -for liberating them from the burden of America's centuries-old hypocrisy about race.

**Was King "the right man at the right time"?** Yes, he was the clincher, the right man for the job.

**Would King be upset with the current use of his most often quoted line? Why or why not?** Hw would not like it because it has become the slogan for opponents of affirmative action like California's Ward Connerly, who insist, incredibly, that had King lived he would have been marching alongside them.