Réponse : A myth can be defined as a story about gods or heroes, it can be a popular belief or a tradition or a false notion. A hero can be a mythological figure, a person who is admired for his or her achievements, a superhero or maybe a role model or an icon.
1. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.
2. The speech can be divided into two main parts. The first part focuses on the circumstances of African Americans in 1963. The second part focuses on the Martin Luther King’s vision for equality and the future of African Americans in the United States.
3. The speech was delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963 and from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. He chosed the memorial in honor of the president who had signed the Emancipation Proclamation a century earlier. And the date is symbolic because the March on Washington produced a bigger turnout than expected, as an estimated 250,000 people arrived to participate in what was then the largest gathering for an event in the history of the nation’s capital.
4. African Americans in the South were still denied access to good housing, high-quality education, employment, and basic amenities. Many had begun to fight the complex web of racism that characterized American society, especially in southern states. Beginning in 1960, students held sit-ins at segregated lunch counters throughout the South in order to desegregate them. This was one of the first signs of the increased youth participation that would characterize the civil rights movement in the sixties. Young black activists formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) aiming to desegregate public facilities and register black voters.
5.He talks mainly about Southern States because he wants to end the legal segregation of African Americans in the South of the United States.
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