Re: New angles on the ``I have a dream`` thread (fwd)

[Lisa Von Drasek <lisav@BNKST.EDU>]

<<< Peter Milbury <pmilbury@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>  9/27  3:41a >>>
I am posting this due to its direct connection with information literacy
skills.

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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:21:31 +0300
From: John Royce <jroyce@robcol.k12.tr>
Subject: New angles on the "I have a dream" thread

Peter,

I'm not posting this to LM_NET as I'm not sure I'm a member of that
listserv; I got to the "I have a dream" thread following a lead from a
link in EL-ANNOUNCE: LM_NET Select (an excellent mailing, thank you for
this service).  If you think it's worth posting to LM_NET, and if I
qualify as a subscriber, perhaps you could forward it (minus this
paragraph) or otherwise suggest I do.

While the issue concerning King's possible plagiarism is of interest, I
am more concerned by the fact that there are at least two versions of
King's speech on the internet, one in which the word "negro" is used,
and the second in which "colored American" is used.  At first glance,
the speeches are otherwise identical, apart from visual effects and some
differences in paragraphing.  Closer inspection shows that there are
vital differences: some paragraphs are there in one version and missing
from the other; the order of some paragraphs has changed; in one version
King's civil rights message is for dignified and non-violent protest, in
the other it is violent opposition until equality is achieved.

When I first came across the differences, it was hard to discover which
version was the real one; at the time the King family was still
maintaining copyright, and published versions were hard to find. Serious
searching showed that the "negro" version advocating non-violent
measures was the original, but it took several weeks to verify this.

This is of course meat for an evaluation exercise. It is also of concern
to those worried about internet filters, for a filter which excludes
"negro" will exclude King's speech as delivered, and will instead convey
a racist message. These are issues of concern to the school librarian.

Further details about this issue can be found in Ann Smith's page on
Information Literacy <http://inst.augie.edu/~asmith/infolit.html> which
first started me on this chase, and in my paper in School Librarian (UK)
and later posted in my own web pages
<http://vm.robcol.k12.tr/~jroyce/lies.htm>.

Sincerely,

John Royce

IASL Regional Director (North Africa and Middle East)
Chair, ECIS Committee on Library and Information Services

Library Director : Robert College of Istanbul
TR-80820 Arnavutk=3DF6y P.K.1.
Istanbul, Turkey

Tel: +90 212 359 2448
Fax: +90 212 257 2146
Email: jroyce@robcol.k12.tr

The IASL web site is <http://www.iasl-slo.org/>

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