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The dream of the author was to live in a free society and make all people equal regardless race and social position.

The main purpose of the speech is expressed in its name “I Have a Dream”. These demonstrations resulted in the passage in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.ĭuring one of the march demonstrations for Jobs and Freedom, King pronounced his famous speech. In 1963, the members of the conference led mass demonstrations in Alabama. He also is one of the organizers of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. In 1955, he became a president of the Montgomery Improvement Association and gained a public recognition for his activities in the campaign. He attended the Morehouse College in Atlanta, and then studied theology at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and Boston University. Marin Luther King was among the founders of the American civil rights movement.

The speech had a great influence on minds and visions of all Americans and “forever “legitimized” civil rights in the minds of most Amricans” (Leff & Kauffeld 1989, p. As Leff & Kauffeld (1989) mention, “Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech won immediate and sustained praise and has become a moral compass in American political culture” (p. “I Have a Dream” is a representation of the “America Dream” about a free and equal society. The speech has become a symbol of a new era of freedom and symbol of the American civil rights movement. The speech is an excellent example of persuasive rhetoric filled with many expressive means and stylistic devices, such as metaphors, repetitions, allusions, epithets and persuasive constructions.