Martin Luther King I Have A Dream Essay

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“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a prominent civil rights activist and Nobel Peace prize winner, delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on Washington to an audience of about 250,000 marchers in August of 1963. Dr. King dreamed of a future where there was harmony between all races in America. Some say America has already reached that stage; however, many point out that America is nowhere near racial harmony. Dr. King was a part of a movement of black Americans protesting for equal rights and the end of segregation in the south. Before the Civil Rights Movement from 1954-1968, racial tensions between white and black Americans began boiling …show more content…

As the U.S.S. Arizona was sinking and still under attack, a Negro seaman who had been trained as just a mess man rushed to the deck, grabbed an unmanned anti-aircraft machinegun and kept firing until his ammunition ran out. Such heroics during an attack is always recognized by American leaders, however, if achieved by a black man back then, it was not. And that is exactly what occurred. For a long period of time, the Navy refused to release the name of the sailor, until they acknowledged that many people had read the story because it was being kept alive by many Negro …show more content…

Of the many denied rights of blacks in this period, earning the right to vote peacefully was of great difficulty to gain. Martin Luther King, Jr. was persuaded by local activists to make Selma’s refusal to black voting a prominent issue. On Sunday, March 7th, 1965, six hundred marchers assembled in Selma and crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River towards Montgomery. To stop the marchers, Alabama state troopers, local police, and majority of the white citizens of Selma waited on the other side of the bridge. The marchers were commanded and threatened to retreat, but they refused. As a result, the officers shot teargas and waded into the crowd, beating the nonviolent protesters with

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