Reading Martin Luther King Jr.
This essay, winner of the 2015 Annual "Atlantic" and College Board Writing Prize, responds to the "I have a dream" speech given by African American civil rights advocate Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington, D.C. held August 28, 1963. Topics addressed include rhetorical analysis of the speech's dominant metaphors and features, personal remarks by the author regarding the international influence of the speech, and commentary on the contemporary state of race relations.
Yan, Nicolas. Atlantic. Sep2015, Vol. 316 Issue 2, p92-94. 3p.