help i need help for my Martin Luther KIng Jr. speech?

Question

i need help please give me any info on wat i could right about or any websites. Except wikepedia

Answer 1

http://www.holidays.net/mlk/speech.htm
http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

Answer 2

I think a fresh perspective on Martin Luther King, Jr. could come by looking at him as a real person. His chief lieutenant Ralph David Abernathy wrote a book called, "The Walls Came Tumbling Down." It shows how Dr. King had a real sense of humor, could mimic other people, had a big appetite, and enjoyed life. As a very important leader Abernathy wrote King projected a serious public image, because he thought that was more appropriate to the movement.

Abernathy also gives firsthand accounts of what it was like the many times he and King were in jail together. While Abernathy tremendously respected his friend Dr. King, he does point out some failures they had. A lot of sources gloss over these. I really stress "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down" as a book that makes Dr. King more human and interesting than he is often described as.

There are other accounts that give good details. Martin Luther King's own "Stride Toward Freedom" is a clear and excellent account of The Montgomery Bus Boycott. King's speech "I Have A Dream" I think has been heard enough times for us to understand it. What is more interesting to me is his speech "Free at Last," the night before he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in April 1968. King was in Memphis trying to help garbage workers get a decent wage. In "Free at Last," although Dr. King was only 39 he talked about dying, not getting to the promised land with other African-Americans, many much older than him. He was in good health. In this stirring, personal, and dramatic speech he seems to have had a premonition of death.

The above topics might be fresher ways to approach Martin Luther King, Jr. for a speech about him.