POLI 1001s Week 2 Civil Rights

• Watch the video and/or read the transcript of the “I Have A Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered August 28, 1963. https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihave…

Write a 1 – 2-page paper analyzing the civil rights movement and its effect on civil rights in the United States today. Be sure to include the following:

• Briefly describe whose civil rights Martin Luther King Jr. was working to promote and protect.
• Identify two of the tactics that Dr. King used to promote civil rights.
• Identify one group or issue in American society where the need to promote civil rights is still relevant.
• Give a brief explanation of the discrimination that you believe still exists with respect to this issue or group.