Archive for December 23rd, 2007

The Freedom Rides

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Lungteng 510 I Have a Dream

Videos of the Freedom Rides


The Freedom Rides–Part 1

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=6w_FDixZ0Sc&feature=related

The Freedom Rides–Part 2

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=EAd6PO79KFw&feature=related

In Part 2, you can see Martin Luther King speak at a mass meeting in a church.

After seeing the videos, we would be more appreciative of not having to go through the hardships the black people experienced. We were born with our rights, while the black people had to fight for their rights.

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Martin Luther King's famous speech: I Have a Dream — Video

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

We are moving on to the lesson “I Have a Dream.” This is a lesson all the three commonly-used high school English textbooks include. Thanks to the Internet, now we have a very easy access to the speech in the video.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

The part we read in our textbook starts at 12:05 and ends at 17:20. At this website, the complete speech text is given below the video. (more…)

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