NOTES FROM TODAY'S LECTURE

Martin Luther King Jr. didn't want anyone to be held down. He wanted everyone to expand their understanding. He referenced The Winter Of Our Discontent because he wanted his references to mean something to his audience. He uses logic by pointing out that in all these documents it says that we should treat each other differently, but the way that people of color were being treated was in no way near what it should be.

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