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very delighted and honored I am to be here tonight and to be a part of this very significant lecture series.  \nI guess there are several reason I why am happy to be here. I noticed on leaving Atlanta, Georgia earlier in the day that we had some pretty bad weather conditions and flying on through Washington and on the Philadelphia it was a little choppy and turbulent in the air , and I am always happy to get on the ground after the rather turbulent flight. Now I don’t want to give you the impression that I don’t have faith in God in the Air, it is simply that I’ve more experience with him on the ground. But in all seriousness I am delighted to be here because it is always a rich and rewarding experience to take a brief break from the day to day and even minute to minute demands of our struggle for freedom and human dignity, and to discuss the issues involved in that struggle with College and University students and people of good will all over this nation and all over the world. So I’m delighted to share this platform and to share this experience with you.  \nI’d like to have you think with me on the subject of integration and I’d like to use as a basic theme for our thinking together, the point that we have come a long, long way in the struggle for racial justice in the united states, but we still have a long, long way to go before the problem I solved. Now let us notice first that we have come a long, long way and I’d like to begin this point by stating that the Negro himself has come a long, long way in re-evaluating his own intransigent world.  \nNow in order to illustrate this a little history is necessary. You will remember that it was in the year 1619 when the first Negro slaves landed on the shores of this nation. They were brought here from the soils of Africa. Unlike the Pilgrim Fathers who landed at Plymouth a year later, they were brought here against their will. Throughout slavery, the Negro was treated in a very inhuman fashion. He was a think to be used, not a person to be respected. The famous Dred Scott decision of 1857 well illustrated the status of the Negro during slavery, an in this decision, the Supreme Court of our nation said in substance that the Negro is not a citizen of the United States. He is merely property, subject to the dictates of his owner-and it went on to say that the Negro has no rights that the White man is bound to respect.  \nWith the growth of slavery it became necessary to give some justification for it. It seems to be a fact of life that human beings cannot continue to be wrong without eventually reaching out of some rationalization to cloth an obvious wrong in the beautiful garments of righteousness.  \nThis is exactly what happened during the days of slavery even religion and the bible were misused in order to justify the status quo and so from some pulpits it was argues that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah’s curse upon the children of Ham. The Apostle Paul’s dictum became a watchword,“Servants be obedient to your master.” One brother had probably read the logic of the great philosopher Aristotle-and you will remember that Aristotle died a great deal to bring into being what we now know as formal logic in philosophy. In formal logic there is a big word known as the syllogism, and the syllogism has a major premise and a minor premise and a conclusion; and so this brother decided to put his argument of the inferiority of the Negro into the framework of an Aristotelian syllogism. He came out with his major premise; all men are made unto His image. Then came his minor premise, god, as everybody knows is not a Negro, therefore the Negro is not a man. This is the kind of reasoning that prevails.  \nLiving with the conditions of slavery and then later segregation, many Negroes lost faith in themselves; many came to feel that perhaps they were less than human.","cbCaiiERZAhFz3cP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiERZAhFz3cP","pdf",205548,"English","# Opening and theme\n# Progress and the need to continue\n## Integration and racial justice\n# Historical background: slavery and segregation\n## 1619 and the slave system\n## Dred Scott decision and denial of citizenship\n## Religious and philosophical rationalizations\n# Psychological effects of segregation\n## False superiority and inferiority\n# Social forces and changing self-perception\n## Urbanization, wars, education, and labor\n## Religion, dignity, and self-respect","[{\"question\":\"What theme does Dr. King propose for the talk?\",\"answer\":\"He asks listeners to think about integration and emphasizes that the United States has come a long way in racial justice while still needing to go further.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the speech describe the legal status of Black people during slavery?\",\"answer\":\"It references the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which stated that Black people were not citizens and were treated as property with no rights the White man was bound to respect.\"},{\"question\":\"What changes does Dr. King say helped African Americans re-evaluate themselves?\",\"answer\":\"He points to increased travel and social upheavals such as the automobile, the two world wars, the Great Depression, urban industrial life, expanded education, declining illiteracy, and organized labor power.\"}]","Talk Delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At Villanova University - January 20, 1965 | PDF",1790066049,25]