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Rhetorical Analysis Of I Have A Dream By Martin Luther King

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On September 15, 1963, a couple of weeks after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, four girls die in a bombing at Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist church. Three days later, King delivered a speech at their funeral. In his eulogy, King claims that although the children were “unoffending, innocent, and beautiful . . . victims,” they were also “martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity” who “died nobly.” The speech shows another perspective of King’s leadership and how he links American political ideas to Christian religious ideas. The bombing was known to be an act of racial terrorism, performed by a group similar to the Ku Klux Klan. King doesn’t blame anyone, but he finds the fault in “every
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