View Five Score Years Ago PNG. I believe that a score is 20 years, so five score would be 100. As mentioned, a score means twenty, so five score and ten means one hundred and ten years.

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Five score years ago, a great american, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation proclamation. The expression five score years ago is referred to the year 1863 when lincoln delivered the gettysburg adress. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the negro is still not free.

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The expression five score years ago is referred to the year 1863 when lincoln delivered the gettysburg adress. Are there any music videos for songs from relient k's latest cd 'five score and seven years ago' and if so, for which songs? You might read a speech by abraham lincoln that says four score and seven years ago. That would make sense since mlk might have been referring to the events of the civil war.