| 1963 - 284 pages
...worried. That day, wrapped sick in a blanket, you watched and. listened with a sort of hopeful anxiety. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. i his momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to... | |
| John Faber - 1978 - 180 pages
...afternoon wore on, the crowd grew restless. Finally, at 3:30 PM, Dr. King began his prepared talk, "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. . . . But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact... | |
| John Faber - 1978 - 180 pages
...afternoon wore on, the crowd grew restless. Finally, at 3:30 PM, Dr. King began his prepared talk, "Eive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. . . . But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact... | |
| Richard John Neuhaus - 1986 - 300 pages
...1963, before the Lincoln Memorial, a baritone trumpet sought to recall America to its better self. "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation," Dr. King began. He then described the ways in which the promise... | |
| Marshall William Fishwick, Ray Broadus Browne - 1987 - 212 pages
...truth, mediated with a transitional metaphor, and argued from a value stance. For example: Five-score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow...stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. HISTORICAL FACT/TRUTH This momentous decree came as a great beacon of light of hope to millions of... | |
| Gabor S. Boritt - 1992 - 273 pages
...LUTHER KING, JR., began his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington by noting that "five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation." Dr. King's subsequent words, when carefully reviewed, present... | |
| Ann Vasaly - 2023 - 324 pages
...5.52.2 In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., began a now-famous oration with the following words: "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose...stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. . .. But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free." The evocation of Abraham Lincoln was... | |
| Ronald T. Takaki - 1993 - 362 pages
...rights movement occurred when hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the 1963 March on Washington. "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation," Martin Luther King, Jr., reminded them. Now, a hundred years... | |
| Margretta M. Styles, Patricia Moccia - 1993 - 376 pages
...civil rights march that ended at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, August 28, 1963. I Have a Dream Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to... | |
| Margretta M. Styles, Patricia Moccia - 1993 - 376 pages
...28, 1963. I Have a Dream Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.... | |
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