How Did Judy Parker Impact The Civil Rights Movement

The experiences of Judy Mae Parker help us understand modern American history by giving us the perspective of an African American growing up from child to adult throughout the vicious era of the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement could be considered a long road to demolish the oppression of the African American race and ultimately achieve complete equality. Through her experiences you can see the progression of Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have A Dream speech slowly but surely being fulfilled. A speech that given as the closing of one of the most influential marches of the Civil Rights Movement, The March on Washington. Which was held in demands for equality, integration in the school systems and work force, higher wages, better working conditions, and accessible voting rights. One can start at the beginning of Martin’s famous I Have A Dream speech and recognize the cognizance of the reoccurring subjection to a then thought of superior race’s despotism. Martin Luther King Jr. stated that “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, …show more content…
The struggle for equality socially and in the workplace and was still ongoing. Following the assisination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, April 4, 1968 and Malcolm X on February 21, 1965 lines were conscrewed on how to go about demonstrations, which lead to many riots. Judy refers to this period and time as “Similar to Moses wandering with the Israelites in the desert for 40 years, dying with the Promised Land it sight but never reaching it. We were depending on him to open doors. He embodied hope for change and in many ways we were