I Have A Dream Speech By Martin Luther King Jr.

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A Persuasive Thesis Statement on In my opinion integration was for the better:
Even though colored people go to older schools they still have a school and books., It was very wrong to harass others for their skin color.Whites got new brick schools and better books and teachers while colored schools were old wooden shacks with old and outdated books and only one teacher at times.The law that stated separate but equal was very unfair and here are some more reasons.

Martin Luther king Jr. touched on this topic many times in his speeches. Most notably his “I have a dream speech”. In his speech he stated quote “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall

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