![]() ![]() It's as though he's speaking right from his heart." And when he gets to the 'I have a dream' passages, he quits looking at his notes. "In terms of delivery, it's sermonic in style," says Schowalter. There was a real chemistry between King and the audience."ĭelivered at a time when America was open to such a speech-1953 would have been too early, 1973, too late, Schowalter maintains-King's message is great both technically and ideologically, he says. In effect, the march for Civil Rights 45 years ago was "set up as a rock concert," says Schowalter, who has taught the speech more than 30 times in his classes. It was, says Rowan University communication studies professor Dan Schowalter, "as near perfect a rhetorical event as you can have." delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, before 200,000 people, Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]()
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