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MLK's I have a dream speech starts off decaling how influential it will be, and also referencing Abraham Lincoln at gettysberg when he said four score and seven years ago. He then claims that the emancipation proclamation was not successful in freeing the black memebrs of American society. WIth jim crow laws blackstill faced the harsh realities of American slavery. they were not citizens. MLK calls for a great change in American civil rights because of these inequalities, by everybody coming together. He encourages blacks to speak out so that they can have their rights heard. Nothing will change until the white only signs outside stores are taken down and everybody in America is treated as equals "holding hands". With this, he begins his famous "I Have a Dream" section of the speech using a lot of literary decives to paint a picture of the America he wishes to see.