...unprepared for the new forms of racial politics that would explode into crisis beginning in the mid1960s. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and...give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a...

...of Negroes and labor," when "all who work for a living will be one." His American Dream of 1961 was "a dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land when men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where...

...able to bring into full realization the dream of our American democracy—a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed ..." (King 1960b, 71). He said that if he lived in any totalitarian country, he could perhaps understand...

...included economic rights. The dream encompassed "equality of opportunity, of privilege and prosperity widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will...necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few."82 Indeed, the slogan of the 1963 March on Washington was "jobs and freedom." After the Watts...