The “Milwaukee Segregation Speech” was an academic
endeavor. I was originally planning on taking the Celtic Studies Certificate at
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, but then I decided that my first step for
graduate school would be getting my MA in Teaching from Cardinal Stritch with a
focus on Secondary Education in English. So my plan to take First Semester
Gaelic and Celtic Crossings ended when I realized I had other courses I needed
to take in preparation for my post-grad work.
In place of those courses I opted to take my English
capstone class, Advanced Workshop in Fiction, and I decided to take Public
Speaking since that meets the requirement for the Wisconsin Public Teaching
requirements. This speech started out as a project for my Public Speaking class.
It was my first speech actually. Now I had preached sermons at my childhood
church, and I had introduced an inductee into the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of
Fame, but this was a different kind of speech.
I changed this speech from the original version I
spoke in class. The reason for that was that I presented this speech in the
preliminary round of the 2013 University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Public
Speaking Showcase: Issues of Community Concern. The majority of what I did for
this speech was change my narration and peroration of the speech to allow the
listeners to feel the topic more.
I didn’t end up winning the showcase unfortunately but
I did well. If anything, I probably read the speech too much (which makes me a
good reader), causing me to lose. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the speech, and
moreso I hope it makes you consider the life without segregation.
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