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Who enforced the emancipation proclamation?

The Emancipation Proclamation was enforce through the advancing Union armies. As the Union soldiers advanced, slaves were freed in their wake, therefore enforcing the Proclamation


What is in the 'I have a dream' speech that is not in the Emancipation Proclamation speech?

The emancipation of the slaves was not a speech, but a written document. King cites he wants to see a world a place where all people are not judged by their color of their skin. That everyone will join hands. The king speech and the emancipation proclamation really have little to do with each other.


Why does King refer to the emancipation proclamation at the start of his speech?

because lincoln made the emanicpation proclamation to free slaves but still even without slavery blacks were not equal to whites at the time


How do you use Jim crow laws in a sentence?

In the beginning of his speech King references the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves but began the era of the Jim Crow laws which made persons of color "separate but equal" ensuring segregation and encouraging inhumane behavior by white citizens.


Why did Martin Luther King choose exactly the Lincoln Memorial for his speech?

Lincoln Memorial would have been a symbolic location for the ideals of Lincoln to be expressed in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech. Abraham Lincoln was the driving for behind the Emancipation Proclamation which granted freedom to slaves and gave them rights as U.S. citizens.


King compared the Emancipation Proclamation to a?

great beacon light of hope


Who freed slaves and gave speeches in the north?

Martin Luther King


Why does Martin Luther King Jr believe the Emancipation Proclamation failed?

It was never passed in congress


A homonym for rain?

reign During the reign of King John II many slaves were freed.


Which of these was a result of the Emancipation Proclamation?

The northerners were inspired to fight under


If the Civil War was over slavery why wasn't the northern slaves freed first?

First of all, the civil war was not fought over slavery. The Northern slaves were freed first because it took longer for King Lincoln's army to beat down the confederacy. The slaves in the south weren't freed until reconstruction.


What were the names of famous slaves during the Civil War?

Susie King Taylor - freed after the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect. She was one of many African-American women to serve with the Union army's "colored" regiments during the second half of the war.Dave the Slave "Dave the Potter"- famous for his pottery work during the Civil War. freed after the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect.Booker T. Washington - American educator, author, orator, and political leader. Born into slavery in Virginia, 1856. Freed, in 1865, when he and his brother and sister, migrated to West Virginia.Author of 14 books, the most notable is "Up From Slavery".George Washington Craver- American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, a brilliant mind who has been dubbed the "Black Leonardo Da Vinci". Born in Missouri in 1864, after slavery was abolished, George and his older brother James were raised by their former slave owner Moses Craver and his wife Susan, as their own children.Mammy Lou -freed after the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect. Is the oldest person to appear in a film or movie. In 1918, was in the silent film, "The Glorious Adventure". Supposedly was 114, at the time.Robert Smalls - He freed himself and his family from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the USS Planter, to freedom in Charleston harbor.