MLK "I Have A Dream" vocabulary

Demonstration

• A public display of group feelings

• A private display of private emotions

• private feelings towards a group display

• science experiment displayed publicly and silently

Symbolic

• Propaganda; manipulative messaging 

• It is a visible sign of an abstract idea

• a button or pin for a political campaign

• a public demonstration of manipulative emotions

Emancipation

• Confine one to an enclosed space 

• to subdue someone in order to enforce apprehension

• The empower someone to emaciate themselves

• Freeing someone from the control of another

Proclamation

• an announcement

• A formal, public statement

• something of great significance; importance

• an honor or award; a trophy or prize

Decree

• legally binding decision or command

• to set free; emancipate

• a written letter: formal or casual

• a universal understanding; a proclaimation

Sear

• to be honored; incomprehensibly

• to become temporarily burned on the surface

• to ring true; unequivocally

• to understand universally; to be inalienable

Wither

• to decline or lose vitality

• To soar and to strenghen

• To destroy; detain or lose intelligence

• To fortify: build; complete

Manacle

• a seashell attached to a shark

• a key used to unlock prison cells

• a shackle or hand cuff to lock around a wrist

• an act of oppression; discrimination

segregation

• A discriminatory social system with separate facilities or institutions for groups.

• A social system with similar institutions but separately funded. Free and equal.

• A public system with equal facilities but separate in an attempt to control others.

• A private system with equal facilities for groups to separate people.

Discrimination

• Separate and fair treatment of a group

• Treatment of a person or a group. equivalent and understanding.

• Unfair and unequal treatment of a person or a group based on prejudice.

• Fair and equal treatment based on prejudice, oppression or discrimination.