A Crossroads Resource

Unit XI: Leader of the Free World: 1945-1975

Question/Problem 3: In what ways did the Civil Rights movement change the lives of African Americans?


Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Future of America

Directions: Locate the quotation from Martin Luther King, Jr., beginning with "History has thrust upon our generation... " This passage can be found on page 4 in Lotte Hoskins, ed., _"I Have a Dream": The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr._ (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968). (Permission to reprint passage not granted.)


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