Martin Luther King Jr. is widely known for his “I have a dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. In his speech, Martin Luther King Jr. made many points that Americans can follow, he mentions that individuals have fought long and hard to be treated unfairly and that he wishes that skin color wouldn’t be a vital characteristic when opportunities are to be given.
In the beginning of his speech, King brings the topic of the struggles that African Americans had to take, in which he stated “One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” By this statement, King is make a connection to the struggles that slaves had to withstand when coming to the United States by the Atlantic Slave Trade occurring from the 15th to the 19th centuries. When coming to the U.S., slaves were chained together, on top of each other and were kept at the bottom of the ship, where deadly diseases spread. …show more content…
King stated, ”The note was a promise that men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the ‘unalienable Rights’ of ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ By using “The note” King used it as a way to intertwine the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as a form as one note made by White Americans. He also states “America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked as “insufficient funds”. But we refuse to believe that the Bank of Justice is bankrupt.” In this analogy, Martin Luther King, Jr. uses checks as a way for individuals to understand that Black needs were not being
In the beginning of his speech, King brings the topic of the struggles that African Americans had to take, in which he stated “One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” By this statement, King is make a connection to the struggles that slaves had to withstand when coming to the United States by the Atlantic Slave Trade occurring from the 15th to the 19th centuries. When coming to the U.S., slaves were chained together, on top of each other and were kept at the bottom of the ship, where deadly diseases spread. …show more content…
King stated, ”The note was a promise that men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the ‘unalienable Rights’ of ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ By using “The note” King used it as a way to intertwine the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as a form as one note made by White Americans. He also states “America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked as “insufficient funds”. But we refuse to believe that the Bank of Justice is bankrupt.” In this analogy, Martin Luther King, Jr. uses checks as a way for individuals to understand that Black needs were not being