The speech resonated not only with the hundreds of thousands of people that was in attendance at the Lincoln memorial, but with the millions who watched the speech. The purpose of the march on Washington was to bring attention to the many injustices that minorities face and to bring pressure to legislators to pass some sort of civil rights act. As we fast-forward a hundred years since the signing of the emancipation proclamation and the ratification of the thirteenth amendment, we can see that although slavery no longer exist all men are still not created equal and everyone still does not have the same rights. In Martin Luther King Jr’s, I have a dream speech he address the problems that minorities still face a hundred years later after the passing of the emancipation proclamation and the ratification of the thirteenth amendment. In Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, he references the emancipation proclamation. Martin Luther King Jr. states “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity” “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. Once the emancipation proclamation was signed and …show more content…
Although there was significant improvement in the lives of African Americans and other minorities through the Success of the civil rights movement by the late 1960s, there were also some failures and aspects that the civil rights movement had not achieved. America still have a ways to go to fix the injustices in the criminal justice system and to totally eradicate the idea of illegal use of force within the police department, America is greater than it was before. Overall If Martin Luther King Jr. and other key civil rights activist where alive today. They would be please that all their hard work and sacrifices where not in