Martin Luther King’s impact on the civil rights movement
Martin Luther King said in his iconic “I have a dream” speech that “1963 is not an end, but a beginning”. And in one aspect Mr. King was correct with his saying because that following year was the beginning of the end of legal segregation. To some MLK is considered the increment that the movement required. Assuming the statement is true, how did he augment the civil rights movement in America?
Let’s start off by looking back in time before MLK made progress in the movement. Just after the emancipation proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, the Jim Crow laws were introduced. These laws segregated whites from people of colour, but also discriminated non-whites since the country had been run by whites for a couple of hundred years. This made it hard for people of colour to integrate to society, especially in states like Texas or Mississippi where folks were generally against the freedom of black or native-Americans. This resulted in many black people working in white homes, or in factories without minimal wage. Even after human rights where accommodated for black people, socially they were barely acknowledged at all.
Moreover I want to look further on in time and analyse what Martin Luther did for the commencement and the inflation of the civil rights movement. The Washington freedom march of …show more content…
In my opinion his harmony and expressiveness where the predominant reasons that so many followed him and looked up to him. I also consider his assassination a tremendous tragedy but at the same time I regard it to have made a big impact on the civil rights movement by drawing media attention and also getting more people involved through compassion. It might have actually benefitted the progression despite being a
Martin Luther King said in his iconic “I have a dream” speech that “1963 is not an end, but a beginning”. And in one aspect Mr. King was correct with his saying because that following year was the beginning of the end of legal segregation. To some MLK is considered the increment that the movement required. Assuming the statement is true, how did he augment the civil rights movement in America?
Let’s start off by looking back in time before MLK made progress in the movement. Just after the emancipation proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, the Jim Crow laws were introduced. These laws segregated whites from people of colour, but also discriminated non-whites since the country had been run by whites for a couple of hundred years. This made it hard for people of colour to integrate to society, especially in states like Texas or Mississippi where folks were generally against the freedom of black or native-Americans. This resulted in many black people working in white homes, or in factories without minimal wage. Even after human rights where accommodated for black people, socially they were barely acknowledged at all.
Moreover I want to look further on in time and analyse what Martin Luther did for the commencement and the inflation of the civil rights movement. The Washington freedom march of …show more content…
In my opinion his harmony and expressiveness where the predominant reasons that so many followed him and looked up to him. I also consider his assassination a tremendous tragedy but at the same time I regard it to have made a big impact on the civil rights movement by drawing media attention and also getting more people involved through compassion. It might have actually benefitted the progression despite being a