Rhetorical devices
“Something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world.”
What is repitition?
What is a baptist minister/ social activist?
The reason for the Speech.
What is employment discrimination?
"I would take my mental flight by Egypt through, or rather across the Red sea. Through the wilderness and onto the promised land."
What is the Bible?
"The nation is sick. Trouble roams the land"
What is personification?
The age he entered college.
What is 15?
The American civil rights movement took place during this time period.
What is the 1950s and 1960s?
"I would come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation" This alludes to what American event.
What is the great depression?
“Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
What is antithesis?
The organization Martin Luther King Jr. and SCLC created.
What is the Poor peoples campaign in 1968?
These two countries' government have what in common during the 1960's "If I lived in China or even Russia...maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there"?
What is a Totalitarian country?
"I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But we as a people will get to the promised land." This is an allusion to what biblical character?
Who was Moses?