History Of Poverty And Discrimination

Poverty, discrimination, & employment plagued many African Americans throughout history. Many Africans were banned from public schools. They could not ride in the front of buses and they did not have many rights. King tried every day to have an “average” American notice that. Many officers arrested civil right marchers because they did not agree with what they were doing. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested over twenty times and assaulted four times. Later on in 1883, the Supreme Court outlawed the civil rights act of 1875; Africans were banned from many places like white hotels, restaurants, theaters, and barber shops.

Leading up to the Civil Rights movement, Edgar Hoover ordered a FBI agent to closely watch over King’s phone calls