LaNdMaRK SPeEcH-MaRtiN LuRtHeR KiNG

JAY: First of all, I would like to express my happiness because our class for landmark speeches was held near the lake in IIUM. It was full of enjoyment with the wind blew and the weather was fine. Thanks to everyone for the delicious and yummy refreshment that we had after the presentations.
For the Martin Lurther King Speech’s “I Have a Dream”, the second group presents with a short acting about the scenario of the discrimination of black and white people. The students with black dress represent the black people and vice versa. Then, they started the presentation like the typical presentation in class.

Basically, the Martin Lurther King Speech style is an informative and persuasive speech. This is because he focuses on the integrity between the black and the white. He gives information in details and sometimes uses metaphors to make the speech sounds beautiful and meaningful.

Regarding the background of the speech, in my opinion, the speech is an attempt to persuade Congress to pass Kennedy’s proposed legislation, King and other civil rights leaders organized the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The information was passed on to white politicians in the Deep South who feared that a successful march on Washington would persuade President Lyndon B. Johnson to sponsor a proposed new civil rights act. Strom Thurmond led the campaign against Rustin making several speeches where he described him as a “communist, draft dodger and homosexual”. Furthermore, the background is to make the people realize that the black and the white people are the same, therefore the treatments and rights should be equal, no discrimination and everyone gets the freedom of voices and jobs.

About the opinion of the person which is Martin Lurther King, he was born in Atlanta, Georgia on 15th January, 1929. Both his father and grandfather were Baptist preachers who had been actively involved in the civil rights movement. King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948. After considering careers in medicine and law, he entered the ministry. While studying at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, King heard a lecture on Mahatma Gandhi and the nonviolent civil disobedience campaign that he used successfully against British rule in India. One of his contributions is Stride Toward Freedom (1958). The book described what happened at Montgomery and explained King’s view on non-violence and direct action. Stride Toward Freedom was to have a considerable influence on the civil rights movement. Martin Lurther King is a nice person because his persona is contradicted with the current prime minister of U.S.A. His aim is to bring the development of the country and integrity among citizens instead of approaching war and trying to be the peacekeeper.