According To King What Hardships Do African Americans Face

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11. According to King , what hardships do African Americans face? Give two examples from the speech.

According to King, African Americans faced segregation back then, they also faced inequality. Africans Americans were set apart the community they were treated unfairly, like if they weren't human beings. People used to look at them more like objects. African American were tired of being treated in such way, all they wanted was freedom and equality between them and he white people. Back then, African Americans couldn't sit together with the white people, they had to sit at the back of the buses or any public transport even if there were sits available in the front. African Americans' opinion wasn't taken importantly either, all their thoughts,

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