I+Have+a+Dream

===**Here are the groups' brainstorming for the first part of the speech. You can use any of these or combinations to create the first two sentences of your precis (four paragraphs turned into two sentences under 50 words in total). This should provide a good start. **===

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A century ago, Negros were not free, and still aren’t today and we are here to dramatize this shameful situation. ======

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We stand before the statue of Lincoln, who inspired black slaves, but blacks still aren’t free- so we’re here today. ======

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Despite steps taken a hundred years ago, Negroes still aren’t free because of segregation, discrimination, and poverty. ======

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In 1863 Negro slaves were granted freedom, but today Negros are still imprisoned by segregation, discrimination, and poverty. ======

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Our country claims that all men are created equal, but it has failed to fulfill this, saying colored people don ’ t apply, so we are here to get what ’s rightfully ours. ======

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We’re here to collect the promise of the Constitution- life, liberty, happiness- that we’ve been refused. But we refuse to believe that we can’t have it. We’re here for it. ======

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America made promises that they did not keep and now Negroes are here to make democracy and justice reality for all people. ======

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Now is the time to demand what was promised by the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence; our unalienable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ======

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One-hundred-years ago the Emancipation Proclamation freed Negro slaves, but today, they’re still not free because of segregation, discrimination, and poverty. ======

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One-hundred years ago the Emancipation Proclamation freed Negro Slaves from captivity, yet they’re still not free from discrimination. ======

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Our nation’s documents were a promissory consisting of three unalienable rights which haven’t been acknowledged to the Negro man so we are here today to demand our freedom and justice. ======

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We demand to receive our natural rights of life, rightly ours based on the words of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, of which the Negros have been denied. ======

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We are here to demand that the unalienable rights that were promised to all men by the Declaration and the Constitution are extended to the Negro. **(by Margaret Wellman, Merrill Steeg, Brooke Robinson and Meg Adams) ======

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 Today, we’re “cashing in” on the “check” that promised //all// Americans the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, in hopes of receiving freedom and justice in return. ======