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(Sink or Swim)
NNPA Columnist
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was 36 years old when he preached “The American
Dream” sermon as Co-Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church on Sunday, July 4, 1965. “You can get so
busy in life that you forget holidays and other days, and it had slipped my mind altogether that today
was the Fourth of July. And I said to him, 'It is coincidental and quite significant, and I think when I
get to Atlanta and go to my pulpit, I will try to preach a sermon in the spirit of the founding fathers of
our nation and in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.' And so this morning I would like to use
as a subject from which to preach: 'The American Dream.'''
In Congress, on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence proclaims that “We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
On Wednesday, July 4, how many of our families, friends, neighbors, grand and great-grand parents
were experiencing “The American Dream'' 42 years after Dr. King’s sermon on Sunday, July 4, 1965?
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