<span>"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. "
In the second paragraph he is referring to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which was made a hundred years before King's speech, "I Have a Dream." Lincoln was a huge contributor to the fight against discrimination.
An allusion is a literary device where the speaker or the author refers directly or indirectly to a well-known person, place, event or literary work. In this case it was used to contribute to the message of what he is conveying.
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The American third party’s membership included mostly
farmers and laborers is the populist party. The are contained with farmers and
laborers because the farmers that joined in the party was upset in regards of
the republican parties and the democratic parties in which they have the belief
of having to regulate businesses in means of playing an active role in their
economy.
He argued that if the government were ever to disregard the people to revolt against our own government.