2 posts tagged “speech”

This is an easy to watch cartoon with catchy music that has an important message.  I saw it on local TV.  It's only 3 mins. long...check it out!

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  What's your strongest memory or impression of King's contributions?

I will never forget his "I Have a Dream..."  speech.  I heard it on my car radio as he was giving it. It was such an intense time then.  There was a cumulative effect of all the events at that time.  We were living in Ohio then, in Yellow Springs at Antioch College.  There was an episode over the local barbershop serving a black man.  As a child, I recall my parents taking me on a bus trip to Florida to visit Grandmother.  My father had to explain to me how it after a certain point I would see black people going to the back of the bus, I would see restrooms and drinking fountains marked Black and White.  I couldn't understand it.  Martin Luther King was a great man and a great leader.  I wish he could see Obama today.